Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader is cutting short a visit to the U.S. and returning home. The office made the announcement shortly after a massive Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut.

Israel carried out a series of air strikes Friday targeting Hezbollah's alleged headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack came the same day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly and defended his country's actions.

The Israeli military says it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut. The series of explosions Friday evening is the most powerful yet seen in the Lebanese capital the past year.

The Israeli military struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday in a series of massive explosions that targeted the group’s leader and leveled multiple high-rise apartment

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of the strikes on the group's headquarters, according to two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity, including one U.S. official. The Israeli army declined to comment on who it was targeting.

The Israeli military says it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, causing massive explosions that leveled multiple buildings. A source told The Associated Press that the series of explosions Friday evening targeted the leader of the militant group,

Israel's military said it launched a new airstrike on Hezbollah's headquarters in southern Beirut. An Israeli official said the target was the leader of the Iran-backed militant group. At the United Nations,

Images showed the smouldering wreckage of several buildings in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the south of the city.

Israel said its military struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in southern Beirut in the heaviest attack on the Lebanese capital in almost two decades, a major escalation of hostilities.