Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
'David's Sling' and 'Arrow' anti-missile systems: How Israel defeated Iran's attack
In this photo released by Israel Aircraft Industries, an Arrow II anti-missile missile is successfully launched December 2, 2005 from an unnamed military base in central Israel. (IAI via Getty Images)...
Oct 02, 2024
A timeline of the intensifying Israel-Hezbollah-Iran conflict
Getty Images - STOCK/pawel.gaul(LONDON) -- Iran launched missiles at Israel on Tuesday in an attack it said was retaliation for a wave of assassinations carried out by Israel over the last several wee...
Oct 01, 2024
7 dead in suspected terror shooting, stabbing in Tel Aviv amid Iran missile attack
Leon Neal/Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- At least seven people were killed and eight others injured in a stabbing and shooting attack Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, Israel, according to the Ichilov Hos...
Oct 01, 2024
Julian Assange makes 1st public appearance since his release from prison
Roni Bintang/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Julian Assange made his first public appearance since his release from prison, telling European lawmakers the United States had forced him to “plead guilty t...
Oct 01, 2024
Hezbollah's leadership 'nearly decimated,' national security spokesperson Kirby says
ABC NewsWhite House National Security spokesman John Kirby said on ABC News' "This Week" that Hezbollah's command structure has been "nearly decimated" and that thousands of the terrorist group's dron...
Sep 29, 2024
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut
Marwan Tahtah/Getty Images(BEIRUT) -- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other commanders were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut, the group and Israeli officials confirmed on Saturday. After h...
Sep 28, 2024
Israel targets Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in strike on Beirut: Senior US official
KeithBinns/Getty Images(BEIRUT) -- Israel targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a strike Friday on Beirut, according to a senior U.S. official.At least two people were killed and 76 others wer...
Sep 27, 2024
Netanyahu says Israel must defeat Hezbollah in UN speech amid calls for cease-fire
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In a defiant address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that his country was committed to defea...
Sep 27, 2024
US, Israel at standoff over Lebanon cease-fire proposal. What happened?
US President Joe Biden (L), sits with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Miriam Alster / POOL / AFP/...
Sep 27, 2024
Israel kills Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike, Netanyahu vows to continue 'with full force'
Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images(TEL-AVIV, Israel) -- Israel said it killed another top Hezbollah commander -- Muhammad Hussein Srour, the commander of Hezbollah's Aerial Command -- in a "precise...
Sep 26, 2024