In the long, unresolved argument between force and peace, southern Lebanon again bore witness overnight as Israeli airstrikes killed at least twelve people — among them two children and a paramedic — while Israel accused Hezbollah of quietly rebuilding what a ceasefire was meant to dismantle. Simultaneously, the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow passage through which so much of the world's energy flows, has grown quieter in the most ominous way: not from calm, but from fear, as American and Iranian forces trade strikes on tankers and reduce one of civilization's great arteries to a corridor of ext
Israeli strikes kill dozen in Lebanon as Hormuz traffic plummets
At least 12 people killed including two children and one paramedic in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon; two Filipino seafarers killed in Iranian attack on Saudi oil tanker.