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Hezbollah chief warns Israel against escalation amid days of mutual cross-border attacks

Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah has said that while his group has so far chosen to respond to Israeli air strikes on open land, it could escalate with a different strategy in the future if needed. Nasrallah, speaking at a news conference on Saturday, warned Israel against further attacks against its installations in south Lebanon following days of tit-for-tat strikes between the two. "We are not looking for war and we […]

8 August 2021

News

Israel attacks Hamas sites in Gaza in response to fire balloons

INTERNATIONAL Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel’s military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the attack that targeted what the Israeli military said was a rocket launching site and a compound belonging to Hamas, the political group that governs Gaza. A social media post by New Press publication, showed […]

7 August 2021

International News

UN experts call for ‘effective investigation’ into Hezbollah critic’s murder

UN human rights experts have raised concerns over the integrity of the Lebanese government's probe into the murder of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim, calling for a "credible and effective investigation" to bring the killers to justice. In a statement released on Monday, UN officials said the probe by the Lebanese government has "led to no meaningful result" and urged Beirut to consider requesting international technical assistance in the investigation. […]

23 March 2021

International News

Israel launches air attacks at Hezbollah posts on Lebanon border

Israel said it carried out air attacks on Hezbollah observation posts in Lebanon on Wednesday after shots were fired from across the border towards its troops the previous evening. The country's military had said earlier that a "security incident" was unfolding in the vicinity of Manara near the UN-demarcated Blue Line border between the two nations. "During operational activity in northern Israel last night, shots were fired from Lebanon toward […]

27 August 2020

International News

Chief defendant in Rafik Hariri killing convicted on all counts by UN-backed tribunal

The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on Tuesday found Salim Jamil Ayyash guilty of conspiracy to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and 21 others in a 2005 bombing. There was insufficient evidence against three other men charged as accomplices in the bombing and they were acquitted, the tribunal found. Judges said they were "satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt" that the evidence showed that Ayyash possessed "one of six mobiles used by […]

19 August 2020

International News

Syria says Israeli strikes targeted T4 air base in Homs

Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in central Homs province, adding that its defences hit a jet involved in the attack. "Our air defences are responding to an Israeli aggression and intercepting a number of missiles targeting the airport, hitting one of the attacking planes and forcing the rest to leave the airspace," the official SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying. Rami Abdel […]

9 July 2018

International News

Israel squares off for showdown with Iran in Syria

A surge in Israeli-Syrian cross-border incidents has turned into the "biggest" confrontation between the two countries in decades and confronted Russia with a new dilemma: how to preserve its ties with both sides. The tit-for-tat attacks, which started on Saturday and continued until the following day, have been accompanied by a war of words, with Benjamin Netanyahu warning that Israel would continue to strike against any aggression. "We dealt severe […]

13 February 2018

International News

US sanctions Hezbollah-linked firms in Lebanon and West Africa

The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on six people and seven financial entities that it said are linked to Lebanon’s Hezbollah. "The administration is determined to expose and disrupt Hezbollah's networks, including those across the Middle East and West Africa, used to fund their illicit operations," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. The six sanctioned individuals include five Lebanese and one Iraqi, most of them linked to […]

3 February 2018

International News

Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah vows to focus on Palestine

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah has said his group and its allies in the region would renew their focus on the Palestinian cause after what he called their victories elsewhere in the region. Hassan Nasrallah called on Hezbollah's allies on Monday to put in place a united strategy "in the field" to confront Israel. His speech came as thousands of Hezbollah supporters demonstrated in Beirut, chanting "Death to America!" and […]

12 December 2017

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