BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 3 (Reuters) - Israeli drone strikes killed at least six people in southern Lebanon and targeted a car just south of Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese security sources said, while Israel said it intercepted a hostile aircraft likely fired by Hezbollah.

Israel’s air force carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, Thursday afternoon, the Israeli military said, further straining a fragile ceasefire a day ahead of crucial negotiations in Washington.

At least eight people were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Wednesday, including six in an attack near the coastal city of Tyre, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. The Israeli military did not

BEIRUT, May 28 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Thursday, the first strike to hit near Beirut in weeks amid a ceasefire that has failed to halt fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

The so-called ceasefire since April, which Hezbollah is not a party to, has done little to halt the death and destruction in southern Lebanon. Here's how the scale of the Israeli operation called "Eternal Darkness" continues to expand.

Pakistan’s interior minister is in Tehran to restart negotiations between Iran and the U.S. The visit comes as the American military reported shooting down two more Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. military is carrying out new strikes on Iran after the downing of a U.S. helicopter. Charlie D'Agata reports.