Lebanese media reported a new strike Thursday in Beirut’s Dahieh district, a Hezbollah stronghold, saying the attack hit an apartment rather than the building that had previously been warned to evacuate.
Lebanon’s MTV channel said the strike targeted an apartment, suggesting what it described as a likely assassination attempt. Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed reported the building struck is located near the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council.
Separately, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said Thursday its reporters in three border provinces had found no evidence that armed Kurdish militants crossed into Iran from Iraq, denying reports circulating in some media outlets.
A U.S. official told Fox News on Wednesday that thousands of Iraqi Kurds had launched a ground attack inside Iran on the fifth day of the conflict, amid reports Washington was considering supporting armed groups in the region to help topple Iran’s ruling clerical regime.
At the same time, security sources told Reuters that a Kurdish camp in Iraq’s Kurdistan region was targeted in a drone strike.
A Kurdish opposition group in Iraq later denied the report that Iraqi Kurdish forces had launched a ground offensive deep inside Iranian territory, according to a media outlet affiliated with Iraqi Kurds.
A senior official in Iraq’s Kurdish regional government, Aziz Ahmed, wrote on X: "Not a single Kurd crossed the border. This is a fake."
After the war with Iran began, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to "seize the moment," urging them to rise up against the government and overthrow it.
Reports this week said the Trump administration was considering backing armed militias to operate against Iran, including Kurdish forces.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied on Wednesday that the United States was considering arming Kurdish groups.
Leavitt said Trump had held numerous discussions with partners, allies and regional leaders in the Middle East, including talks with Kurdish leaders about the U.S. base in northern Iraq. She dismissed reports that the president had agreed to arm Kurdish forces, calling the claims completely false.
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First published: 23:50, 03.04.26