Lebanon

Exploding pagers kill eight people and wound thousands

A series of lethal pager explosions targeted Hezbollah operatives on Tuesday, resulting in at least eight deaths and over two thousand injuries in Lebanon and Syria. The hand-held pagers, which went off simultaneously in both countries, were primarily used by Hezbollah members to avoid phone tracking by Israeli intelligence. Among the injured was Iranian envoy to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, just…