She walked out of her bedroom a few minutes after I arrived, the pallu of her sari draped, as always, across her right shoulder, Gujarati in style. Shireen* smiled at me as she slowly made her way to the couch, her short grey hair resting on her neck. For the next few hours, we sat in the lounge, amid remnants that each told their own story. An over...

Israel’s military claims it hit a Hezbollah ‘weapons warehouse’ but Lebanese health ministry says residence attacked. An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon has killed nine people, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has said, as the Israeli military reported hitting weapons stores of the Hezbollah movement. The death toll from the strike in the Nabatieh area included “a woman and her two children” and left five other people wounded,...