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The military struck targets throughout the night that it said were tied to Hezbollah.

Israeli officials say the country’s warplanes destroyed an underground bunker in a residential area after receiving information that the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was convening a meeting there. Several apartment buildings were flattened.

Visual evidence analyzed by The New York Times shows that nearby buildings were damaged in the attacks, which targeted Hezbollah’s leader. The extent of the destruction is not yet clear.

Punctuation delayed, but not denied: A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë at Poets’ Corner in the celebrated London church finally gets its accent marks.

The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New York Times saw widespread devastation there after intense Israeli airstrikes this week.

The strike came barely an hour after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered a fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly.

Though the offer was quickly rejected by several commanders of the opposition forces, it was still seen as a significant development in the three-year civil war.

The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq who served as a bulwark against attacks by a resurgent Islamic State.

Residents described a scene of flattened buildings and destroyed vehicles after Israel unleashed strikes targeting Hezbollah’s leader outside the Lebanese capital.

During a trip to Luxembourg and Belgium, Francis spoke with 15 people who were abused by Roman Catholic clergy.