BREAKING: Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi warned Israel & its allies against any 'reckless' actions after Tehran's drone and missile attack in retaliation for a deadly strike on its Damascus consulate, via AFP News Agency.

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'The Israeli strike targeted an area... near Baalbek and targeted a two-storey building belonging to Hezbollah,' a source within the group told AFP, adding there were no casualties.

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BREAKING: A source within Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Israel struck one of its buildings in Lebanon's east, close to the Syrian border, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel, via AFP News Agency.

Day after Iran's retaliation:

- Iran army says attack 'achieved all its objectives'.
- Israeli army says Iran attack 'foiled', 99% of drones & missiles intercepted.
- Iran says retaliation 'concluded', warns Israel not to respond.
- Iraq, Jordan Israel & Lebanon reopen airspace.

BREAKING: Lebanon closes airspace as Iran strikes Israel: ministry, via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: Iran Guards confirm drone attack under way against Israel: state media, via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: Iran drone attack on Israel to 'unfold over a number of hours: White House, via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: Iran launches direct drone strikes at Israel: Israel army, via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a container ship 'related to Zionist regime (Israel) in the Gulf,' state media said, via AFP News Agency.

The ship seized by heliborne operation near the strait of Hormuz 'has now been directed towards the territorial waters' of Iran, IRNA said.

An explosive device detonated in a car in Damascus' Mazzeh district, Syrian state media said quoting a police source.

Security incidents occur intermittently in Damascus, but the car bombing came with tensions high after Iran vowed retaliation for a strike blamed on Israel.

BREAKING: Biden says expecting Iranian attack on Israel 'sooner than later', via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired 'dozens of Katyusha rockets' at Israeli artillery positions, a salvo it said was in response to Israeli strikes in the south, via AFP News Agency.

BREAKING: The United States said it was sending reinforcements to the Middle East as fears grow that Iran could soon launch an attack on Israel, via AFP News Agency.

Thousands of Lebanese today mourned a slain Christian political official authorities said was killed by a Syrian gang, with supporters pointing the finger at Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group.

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BREAKING: France today warned its citizens to 'imperatively refrain from travel in the coming days to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories', the FM's entourage told AFP News Agency.

Today, Lebanon's interior minister vowed to get tough on Syrians after several were arrested on suspicion of involvement in killing a political official, in a case that triggered uproar.

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A military official told AFP News Agency that Damascus handed over 3 Syrian suspects & that Pascal Sleiman's body was found in Syria, near the Lebanese border.

المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان said a body corresponding to the victim's description was found near the Lebanese border, where Hezbollah holds sway.

Lebanese authorities arrested 7 Syrians on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a local politician, a judicial official told AFP News Agency, amid a backlash against refugees.

'The kidnappers admitted that their goal was stealing the victim's car.'

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Trouble in Byblos: Syrian kidnappers killed a Lebanese local political official belonging to a party that opposes Hezbollah, Lebanon's army said, in a case that shook the country, via AFP News Agency.

The LF party said they considered it 'a political assassination until proven otherwise'.

Iran's FM again accused the US today of approving a deadly strike blamed on Israel that destroyed Tehran's Damascus consulate last week, shortly after inaugurating a new consulate in the Syrian capital, via AFP News Agency.