par Salam Zaatari, 11/07 10:27 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah has become a major non-state actor in the Middle East since Israel’s 2006 invasion. Supported by Iran, it has received large shipments of rockets and drones and now produces its own weapons, including air defense capabilities. Its arsenal includes guided and unguided rockets, antitank artillery, ballistic and anti-ship ...
10/07 10:17 - Reading : less than a minute
par This Is Beirut, 10/07 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Palestine Gebran Bassil Hezbollah
Opposition within the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) against party leader MP Gebran Bassil is increasingly taking shape, with many members reportedly boycotting party meetings. The dissidents have many remarks regarding Bassil’s political positions, especially a recent stance which suggests that he is “longing” to return to Hezbollah’s ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/07 23:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Israel
The southern front flared up again on Tuesday afternoon following the death of Abou al-Fadl Karnbach, Hassan Nasrallah's former bodyguard, in an Israeli strike on his car on the Beirut-Damascus road. The pro-Iranian group swiftly retaliated, launching a barrage of rockets towards the Golan, targeting the Kilaa base. According to Israeli army ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/07 16:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Damascus Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah
Abu al-Fadl Qarnabash, the former key bodyguard of Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Tuesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his car on the Damascus-Beirut Road near the Ya'four-Saboura checkpoint, according to information obtained by This is Beirut. Qarnabash had a role within the pro-Iranian ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/07 16:33 - Reading : less than a minute
A relative calm reigned on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday. In the Bekaa, at the junction of Chaat in Baalbeck, an Israeli drone targeted a car causing the death of the Hezbollah fighter Maytham Mustafa el-Attar. In southern Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out raids against the town of Houla and the outskirts of Odaisseh. Hezbollah ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/07 18:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestine Hamas Hezbollah Israel
The Israeli prime minister's spokesman said Friday that "gaps" remained with Hamas on how to secure a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release but Israel will send a delegation for more talks with Qatari mediators next week. The head of the Mossad spy service held a first round of talks in Doha on Friday and returned to Jerusalem. "It was agreed that ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/07 13:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caution prevails on the southern border on Friday after the intensive clashes of the day before. In the latest developments, Israeli drone strikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Markaba before noon on Friday, injuring one person, according to primary reports. Israeli artillery shelling was also recorded on the outskirts of Hebbariyeh and ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/07 23:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued unabated on Thursday. At around 7:20 PM on Thursday, Israeli warplanes attacked Aita al-Shaab with two air-to-surface missiles and the border town of Dhayra in the western sector with phosphorus shells. There were numerous developments on the ground throughout the day, with Israeli ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/07 18:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A former minister believes that there is no judicious reason, even from Israel's perspective, for an imminent or inevitable open war against Lebanon at this stage of the confrontations with Hezbollah. According to a Western military expert, a distinction should be made between “a war without controls and ceilings,” as Hezbollah’s ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/07 12:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The escalation in the South intensified on Thursday after Israel killed a Hezbollah senior field commander the day before. Hadi Chreim, a member of Hezbollah, was killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike targeting a home in Houla. At the same time, Hezbollah announced having launched 20 drones and 200 missiles against Israel in the largest attack ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/07 11:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As war rages in Gaza and threatens to spread to Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter the fray against Israel and the United States. A field commander of the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq said there would be "escalation for escalation" in the event of a full-scale war in Lebanon. The commander, speaking to AFP on ...