Sheikh Nasrallah Hezbollah: Taiwan explodes Liban for the sake of Israel.
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo on Wednesday denied reports that it manufactured beepers used by members of Hezbollah.
says the company's director, Hsu Ching-kuang.
It was learned that Hsu sent a letter to Nasrallah, in which he accused him of having ties to the Chinese intelligence services he works for in order to accuse Taiwan of contributing to terrorism.
The Israeli military has not commented directly on the blasts but said senior commanders had held a situational assessment “focusing on readiness in both offence and defence in all arenas”.
According to leaks from secret negotiations between MI6 and the CIA, the Lebanese pagers were a well-out operation by MI6 and the CIA to launch the war in the region. The Biden administration and Mossad have been kept posted about the operation.
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Taiwanese company Gold Apollo on Wednesday denied reports that it manufactured beepers used by members of Hezbollah.
“These are not our products (...) They are not our products from beginning to end,”
says the company's director, Hsu Ching-kuang.
It was learned that Hsu sent a letter to Nasrallah, in which he accused him of having ties to the Chinese intelligence services he works for in order to accuse Taiwan of contributing to terrorism.
The Israeli military has not commented directly on the blasts but said senior commanders had held a situational assessment “focusing on readiness in both offence and defence in all arenas”.
According to leaks from secret negotiations between MI6 and the CIA, the Lebanese pagers were a well-out operation by MI6 and the CIA to launch the war in the region. The Biden administration and Mossad have been kept posted about the operation.
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The US Commandos Rescued the Second Crew Member of a F-15E fighter
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The second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued by US commandos overnight, ending a dramatic two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran.
The crew member, a colonel and weapons systems officer, had sustained some injuries but was successfully extracted by US special forces, Donald Trump said in a social media post soon after midnight EST.
The US president called the operation to recover the air man “one of most daring search and rescue operations in U.S history” – and claimed that not a “single American” had been killed or wounded in the operation.
“At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
Initial reports indicated that once located hiding in the mountains, the colonel was rescued by a special forces team under a hail of heavy covering fire. Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed, according to Iranian sources.
Iran’s military said on Sunday that it had destroyed three US aircraft involved in the search operation and that the Americans had used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan as a base. State media shared images of charred wreckage scattered across a desert area, with smoke still emanating from the site.
At least one $115m Hercules had to be destroyed in Iran because it had run into difficulties, having become bogged down in the ground, according to US media. Extra transport planes had to be flown in to complete the extraction.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, highlighted the cost of the lost aircraft with an apparent photograph of the wreckage: “If the United States gets three more victories like this, it will be utterly ruined.”
Footage emerged of what was said to be night-time clashes in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, near the city of Dehdasht, about 30 miles from the coast in the south-west of the country, the area where US searches had been taking place.
The pilot of the aircraft had been rescued on Friday, after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first US plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war, but the second member of the crew could not be located immediately.
The US air force had launched a massive search and rescue effort, using low-flying Pave Hawk helicopters and specialist C-130 Hercules transport planes.
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The second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued by US commandos overnight, ending a dramatic two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran.
The crew member, a colonel and weapons systems officer, had sustained some injuries but was successfully extracted by US special forces, Donald Trump said in a social media post soon after midnight EST.
The US president called the operation to recover the air man “one of most daring search and rescue operations in U.S history” – and claimed that not a “single American” had been killed or wounded in the operation.
“At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
Initial reports indicated that once located hiding in the mountains, the colonel was rescued by a special forces team under a hail of heavy covering fire. Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed, according to Iranian sources.
Iran’s military said on Sunday that it had destroyed three US aircraft involved in the search operation and that the Americans had used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan as a base. State media shared images of charred wreckage scattered across a desert area, with smoke still emanating from the site.
At least one $115m Hercules had to be destroyed in Iran because it had run into difficulties, having become bogged down in the ground, according to US media. Extra transport planes had to be flown in to complete the extraction.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, highlighted the cost of the lost aircraft with an apparent photograph of the wreckage: “If the United States gets three more victories like this, it will be utterly ruined.”
Footage emerged of what was said to be night-time clashes in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, near the city of Dehdasht, about 30 miles from the coast in the south-west of the country, the area where US searches had been taking place.
The pilot of the aircraft had been rescued on Friday, after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first US plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war, but the second member of the crew could not be located immediately.
The US air force had launched a massive search and rescue effort, using low-flying Pave Hawk helicopters and specialist C-130 Hercules transport planes.
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Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the air man once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers” according to a correspondent with the US Air & Space Forces Magazine, who said he had been briefed on the operation.
Military pilots said the missing F-15 crew member would have been trying to hide for as long as possible from the Iranian military.
If possible, the colonel would have tried to transmit their location relative to a known secret point in the hope that US special forces coming in via helicopter would be able to rescue them.
It was not clear exactly how the F-15 was downed, although Iran said it had shot it down. The US military did not publicly comment. Trump said on Friday that the episode would not affect efforts to negotiate a peace settlement with Iran.
Iranian media released pictures of the wreckage of a plane, including a distinctive F-15 tail fin, and a used ejector seat on Friday, with state media and businesses in the country offering a bounty if the missing crew member could be captured.
It also emerged that a Pave Hawk helicopter was hit by fire from the ground during the rescue of the pilot on Friday, but was able to fly away.
Another combat plane, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, crashed near the strait of Hormuz with Iran claiming it had shot it down. Its pilot was rescued.
The loss of the F-15 and other aircraft had come as a relative surprise, given the air superiority the US and Israel have established over Iran from the beginning of the five-week-long war.
But it demonstrated that after thousands of bombing missions, Iran still has the capacity to inflict high-profile damage on the US.
Trump said the US would never leave an American warfighter behind, committing the country’s military to similar rescue efforts if any more planes are brought down.
Meanwhile, heavy bombing of Iran continued. Israel attacked several facilities at Mahshahr, a petrochemical complex in Khuzestan province, on Saturday, and on Sunday Iranian officials said that production there had been shut down.
A building close to Iran’s civil Bushehr nuclear power plant was struck on Saturday morning, killing a guard, Iran said.
Later, the IAEA atomic energy watchdog said it had been informed by Iran of the incident, the fourth in recent weeks, and added “no increase in radiation levels was reported”.
Israel also attacked Lebanon, having issued a warning that people should evacuate at least 300 metres away from a building in southern Beirut that it said was affiliated with Hezbollah. Seven people were recorded as killed in a strike on Kfar Hatta, 30 miles north of the border with Israel.
A fire broke out at the Borouge petrochemical plant in the UAE after falling debris from a missile interception caused a blaze, prompting operations at the facility to be suspended. A fire was extinguished at a storage tank belonging to Bahrain’s state energy company, the company said on Sunday.
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The Hezbollah Tunnels: What Does This Underground City Look Like?
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The Hezbollah tunnel that runs under the small hilltop town of Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon bears little resemblance to the crude, hand-dug passages of the Gaza underground.
About 170m long, and 20m beneath the shattered Shia village, the spacious and hardened facility is said to have benefited from Iranian design and engineering.
When The Telegraph was guided in by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops with night vision goggles in the early hours of Friday, it felt like a municipal underpass from the 1970s.
“A village the size of Majdal Zoun would have no need for such a large underground structure,” noted Nicholas Blanford, a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. “[It’s] definitely Hezbollah.”
The concrete passage was littered with the detritus of war. Heavy blast doors gave way to several anterooms for weapons storage.
Branching tunnels were said by the IDF to have offered commanding views of Israel and been used to launch munitions until they were bombed.
“It’s a terror stronghold,” said a commander of Israel’s 551st Brigade, gesturing towards a room in which eight tons of explosives were said to have been found.
The floor was lined with the components of dozens of drones. “These one-way unmanned aerial vehicles are GPS guided and have a range of more than 200km [124 miles],” he said.
It is upon the fate of dozens of villages like Majdal Zoun – which sits, shattered and broken, on high ground just three miles north of the Israeli border – that the US-Iran ceasefire will be made or broken.
JD Vance, the US vice-president, was in Switzerland on Sunday, saying the flashpoint area was high on the agenda of the US-Iran talks that were taking place there.
Meanwhile, the IDF appeared to be preparing for an assault on a second village with an extensive tunnel network some 22 miles to the north-east of Majdal Zoun.
“I think we’re going to hopefully make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue. Those are the two big things that I think we’re to be focused on,” Mr Vance told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
Southern Lebanon’s towns – and the Hezbollah infrastructure some of them conceal – threaten to upend the wider US-Iran ceasefire.
Israel wants to hold them, to create a buffer zone that protects its northern communities. It fears that if it allows Lebanon’s Shia population to return, Hezbollah will come too, to dig in once more and rearm.
The Lebanese, on the other hand, see Israel as the aggressor – one that has destabilised the region for decades by failing to settle the Palestinian question.
The latest incursion, which began in response to Hezbollah rocket fire at the start of the Iran war, has taken some 6 per cent of Lebanese territory.
It has displaced more than a million people and strengthened Hezbollah’s populist resistance narrative, observers say.
“When Hezbollah launched their first rocket barrage on March 2, the feedback from the Shia community writ large was: ‘Oh my god, what have you done? We’re only just recovering from the previous round. Now you’re dragging us into another war,’” said Mr Blanford.
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The Hezbollah tunnel that runs under the small hilltop town of Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon bears little resemblance to the crude, hand-dug passages of the Gaza underground.
About 170m long, and 20m beneath the shattered Shia village, the spacious and hardened facility is said to have benefited from Iranian design and engineering.
When The Telegraph was guided in by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops with night vision goggles in the early hours of Friday, it felt like a municipal underpass from the 1970s.
“A village the size of Majdal Zoun would have no need for such a large underground structure,” noted Nicholas Blanford, a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. “[It’s] definitely Hezbollah.”
The concrete passage was littered with the detritus of war. Heavy blast doors gave way to several anterooms for weapons storage.
Branching tunnels were said by the IDF to have offered commanding views of Israel and been used to launch munitions until they were bombed.
“It’s a terror stronghold,” said a commander of Israel’s 551st Brigade, gesturing towards a room in which eight tons of explosives were said to have been found.
The floor was lined with the components of dozens of drones. “These one-way unmanned aerial vehicles are GPS guided and have a range of more than 200km [124 miles],” he said.
It is upon the fate of dozens of villages like Majdal Zoun – which sits, shattered and broken, on high ground just three miles north of the Israeli border – that the US-Iran ceasefire will be made or broken.
JD Vance, the US vice-president, was in Switzerland on Sunday, saying the flashpoint area was high on the agenda of the US-Iran talks that were taking place there.
Meanwhile, the IDF appeared to be preparing for an assault on a second village with an extensive tunnel network some 22 miles to the north-east of Majdal Zoun.
“I think we’re going to hopefully make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue. Those are the two big things that I think we’re to be focused on,” Mr Vance told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
Southern Lebanon’s towns – and the Hezbollah infrastructure some of them conceal – threaten to upend the wider US-Iran ceasefire.
Israel wants to hold them, to create a buffer zone that protects its northern communities. It fears that if it allows Lebanon’s Shia population to return, Hezbollah will come too, to dig in once more and rearm.
The Lebanese, on the other hand, see Israel as the aggressor – one that has destabilised the region for decades by failing to settle the Palestinian question.
The latest incursion, which began in response to Hezbollah rocket fire at the start of the Iran war, has taken some 6 per cent of Lebanese territory.
It has displaced more than a million people and strengthened Hezbollah’s populist resistance narrative, observers say.
“When Hezbollah launched their first rocket barrage on March 2, the feedback from the Shia community writ large was: ‘Oh my god, what have you done? We’re only just recovering from the previous round. Now you’re dragging us into another war,’” said Mr Blanford.
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While Israel is fiercely resisting these terms, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah are insisting on them – something that has already led to more bloodshed.
At about the same time as The Telegraph was in Majdal Zoun on Friday, a four-man IDF tank crew was killed by a suspected Hezbollah drone or rocket attack in Kfar Tebnit, 22 miles to the north-east.
Israel responded with 150 air strikes that it said had killed “dozens of terrorists” across Lebanon.
Kfar Tebnit, like Majdal Zoun, also conceals a large Hezbollah tunnel network, according to Israel media.
The flare-up was seized upon by Israel’s ruling coalition government which faces an election in October and is under significant pressure over the failure of the Iran war.
In Bürgenstock, Switzerland, US and Iranian negotiators, including Mr Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as well as Mr Vance, began 60 days of negotiations.
“The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf?” Mr Vance asked.
“Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently, or do we go back to doing things the old way, which is not our preference, but is certainly very much something that can happen,” he added.
But just as the negotiations threaten Israel’s freedom of action, they have also sapped the credibility of the Lebanese government, experts say.
Michael Young of the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut told The Telegraph that the Lebanese government, already weak, was being undermined by both the Israelis and the Iranians, reducing its ability to disarm Hezbollah.
“The Lebanese are paying the price for both sides,” he said. “The Israelis are not that interested in giving them anything that can strengthen the credibility of the Lebanese state, and nor do the Iranians have any interest in giving anything that may make the Lebanese state more credible.”
Although the US’s return to diplomacy has been welcomed by most leaders around the world, primarily because it has reopened the Strait of Hormuz, few believe the issue of the Israel-Lebanon conflict will be resolved any time soon.
The two sides were again trading blows on Saturday. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, knows he would face electoral oblivion were he to pull the IDF out of Lebanon before the October elections in Israel.
Meanwhile in Lebanon, Iran is tightening its grip on Hezbollah.
“Since the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah back in September 2024, the Iranians have got a tighter control, they’ve been involved with the reorganisation of the Islamic resistance, the military component of Hezbollah, and we’ve seen that visibly over the last three or four months,” said Mr Blanford.
And on both sides people are dying. More than 100 IDF soldiers have been killed in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict since Oct 7, 2023, and nearly 50 civilians. On the Lebanese side, nearly 4,000 people have lost their lives since March 2 this year alone.
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