"Over two days and in one minute on Tuesday and in one minute on Wednesday the Israeli enemy was aiming to kill 5,000 in two minutes without any boundaries," Hezbollah's leader says

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned that a wider Middle East conflict would have 'very big global consequences's speaking on Mail's new podcast 90 Seconds to Midnight .

With the blasts increasingly viewed as heralding a return to all-out war, Lebanese officials are now pleading for an intervention from the UN and say their country is preparing for the worst.

BEIRUT—Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack. An…

Cuba and Venezuela issued statements condemning an apparent attack on Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon.

Following a wave of pager explosions in Lebanon that left several injured and scores more wounded, a Pentagon official has said that the US was not involved in the incident. The explosions struck many members of Hezbollah, which has blamed Israel. Israeli officials have currently refused to comment.

The seemingly coordinated blasts targeting Hezbollah members stoked fears of a broadening conflict.

One day after hundreds of pagers widely used by Hezbollah simultaneously exploded in Lebanon, two-way radios used by the group detonated on Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated,…