privately painted a very different picture<\/a>.<\/p>\nIran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, according to the assessments. They also said that, despite extensive U.S. and Israeli bombardment, Iran had restored access to most of the missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, and still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers.<\/p>\n
Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran in late February, setting off a war that quickly engulfed much of the Middle East. Iran retaliated by firing volleys of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel and across the Persian Gulf, drawing in many of the United States\u2019 Arab allies. <\/p>\n
Soon after the outbreak of war, Lebanon opened up as another front in the conflict after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel. The Trump administration has nominally declared a cease-fire in Lebanon, which was one of Iran\u2019s demands for a broader truce, but intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has largely continued. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, at least eight people were killed in southern Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes, including a mother and two children, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Israeli troops have occupied swaths of southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters have targeted them with drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As President Trump arrived in China on Wednesday, U.S. negotiations to end the conflict in the Middle East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22859,3347,1452,11598,75551,78395,9,11,10,15151,1069,1554,1876],"class_list":["post-229899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airport-security","tag-airports","tag-donald-j","tag-homeland-security-department","tag-hungary","tag-leo-xiv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-transportation-security-administration","tag-trump","tag-united-states-international-relations","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}