Motivation is a mystery in apparent Israeli attack on Lebanese militia’s communications network

People carry the coffin of Hezbollah senior commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, 55, who was killed late Tuesday. (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press) Of all the mysteries surrounding a sophisticated and startling attack against an avowed adversary of Israel, one question stands out: Why? After hundreds of hand-held pagers used by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah exploded … Read more

Second wave of device explosions rocks Lebanon

A man wounded in Tuesday’s wave of explosions of handheld pagers is carried to an ambulance in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. On Wednesday, booby-trapped walkie-talkies in Lebanon began exploding. (Associated Press) A fresh wave of explosions caused by booby-trapped communication devices wracked Lebanon on Wednesday, the second such attack in as many … Read more

Election officials in multiple states receive suspicious substances, alarming the FBI

Election officials in more than a dozen states have received suspicious packages in recent days, triggering security fears fewer than seven weeks before millions of Americans go to the polls to elect the next president and Congress. Several state election offices, including in Kansas and Iowa, were briefly evacuated after receiving the parcels, which have … Read more

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