Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades,

Hezbollah announced the death of a top military official in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut Friday. Israeli officials had earlier said the rare strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed Ibrahim Akil,

Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the claim of Akil's killing, which came as a flurry of tit-for-tat bombardments between the enemies raised fears of a full-out war erupting in the Middle East.