When Israel bombed the Lebanese-Syrian border, it cut off a key route for many in Syria who rely on it as a vital link to the outside world.For years, Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria has served as a key access point for international travel,

Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group. Bloomberg News' Dana Khraiche discusses with Joumanna Bercetche on & Africa.

Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group. The Israeli military reported the assassination of Hezbollah’s head of the Qana area on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said on Friday it had identified what it called "a number of suspects" in Jordan's border area trying to cross into Israel south of the Dead Sea region and had killed two of them after they opened fire on Israeli forces.

The Israeli military said it identified a number of terrorists and killed two of them after they opened fire while crossing Jordan’s Dead Sea region

The military said IDF troops killed two terrorists who crossed into Israeli territory from Jordan in the area of the Dead Sea.