By Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT, March 5 (Reuters) - Lebanese armed group Hezbollah spent months restocking its arsenal of rockets and drones, using support from Iran and its own weapons factories to prepare for a new war with Israel,

Hezbollah declares readiness for "open war" and fires rockets into northern Israel, prompting Israeli retaliation as the militant group escalates involvement.

Israeli war on Iran in its seventh day, President Trump says the aim is to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction and "Make Iran Great Again."

Mourners gathered in Tehran after Iranian state TV announced that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israeli operation in February 2026, but an old clip circulating on social media of people swarming around coffins draped in yellow cloth does not show his funeral procession.

Hezbollah’s decision to enter the Middle East war in support of its patron Iran has opened a rift with its main

Airspaces are currently closed in Iran, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Some countries are scheduled to reopen airspaces at 4 or 5 p.m. ET Tuesday. Israel will continue to strike Hezbollah inside Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

Two people were injured in the concurrent Iranian ballistic missile fire and Hezbollah rocket barrage on central Israel earlier, medics say. According to Magen David Adom, a man in his 30s was hurt by shrapnel, and another person was wounded by a blast. Both are listed in good condition, MDA says.

Iranian Quds Force Lebanon Corps commander Daoud Ali Zadeh was killed in Tehran, the IDF said, dealing a blow to Hezbollah’s military coordination. The IDF announced on Tuesday evening that it killed