Hezbollah appears on the backfoot, rattled, and forced to contend with a new reality after unprecedented attacks in Lebanon.

The Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, did not say how his group would respond to attacks on hand-held devices, which killed dozens when pagers and walkie-talkies exploded.

Israeli warplanes shattered the calm over Beirut on Thursday as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered a fiery televised speech from an undisclosed location. Nasrallah accused Israel of crossing a "red line" following the remote detonation of rigged communication devices that killed 37 and injured over 3,

Israeli jets bombarded southern Lebanon and staged a show of force over Beirut just as Hezbollah’s leader vowed to avenge the covert operation that turned his fighters into walking booby traps. Hassan Nasrallah admitted that his movement had been dealt “a huge and severe blow” after two days of remote-controlled explosions targeting electronic