An missile is fired from a desert launch site in southern Israel on April 12, 2015. (Getty) June 3, 2020 Israel on Tuesday said it has successfully tested two ballistic missiles in the Mediterranean, amid tensions with Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. The state-run Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said the “complex trial... [...]
A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans, as he holds a picture of the late Iran revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (L), and Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (AP) May 27, 2020 Diplomats in New York revealed that efforts are underway at the United Nations and across capitals to prevent Lebanon from sliding into a “catastrophic [...]
“Hard Revenge” on a sign of Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, Qasem Soleimani and Imad Mughniyeh placed at the Lebanon-Israel security fence on April 18, 2020. (Supplied) May 22, 2020 Twenty years after Hezbollah guerrillas pushed Israel’s last troops from southern Lebanon, both sides are gearing up for a possible war that neither seems [...]
A Hezbollah fighter stands in front of anti-tank artillery at Juroud Arsal, the Syria-Lebanon border, July 29, 2017. (Reuter) May 15, 2020 Lebanon on Wednesday entered talks with the International Monetary Fund, amid calls to disarm Hezbollah. A report in the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday quoted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as saying that [...]
Hezbollah flags have often been waved at the annual al-Quds rally in Berlin. (Getty) May 5, 2020 An Iranian state-run daily has called for “firm action” against the German ambassador to Tehran in response to Germany designating the Lebanese Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Germany branded Hezbollah a “Shia terrorist organization” last week, with dozens [...]
The new commander of IRGC's Qods Force Esmail Qaani (L) and Lebanese Shiite cleric Muhammad Kawtharani, who has long spearheaded Hezbollah's Iraq policy. (Mashregh) May 05, 2020 Last month the United States offered a prize for providing "any information on the activities, networks and colleagues" of a senior Lebanese Hezbollah official, thought to [...]
Hezbollah flags have often been waved at the annual al-Quds rally in Berlin. (Getty) April 30, 2020 Germany has banned all activity by the Islamist Hezbollah movement and police have carried out raids on mosques and centres linked to the group. Until now the political wing of the Shia Lebanese group, backed by [...]
Syrian air defences responding to Israeli missiles targeting Iranian facilities near Damascus, April 13, 2019. (AFP) April 27, 2020 Israeli warplanes hit on Monday targets belonging to Iran and its proxies including Lebanon's Hezbollah, near Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said four fighters were killed in the strikes. The [...]
“Hard Revenge” on a sign of Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, Qasem Soleimani and Imad Mughniyeh placed at the Lebanon-Israel security fence on April 18, 2020. (Supplied) By Joe Truzman April 27, 2020 Recent warnings from Israel against Hezbollah’s military activity in southern Syria have elicited a response from the Iranian-backed group. The warning came [...]
Protesters stand along the side of the Beirut-Jounieh highway on Wednesday, the seventh day of protests against tax increases and government corruption.(AFP) By Tony Badran April 24, 2020 In response to the pandemic, the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has waged an aggressive public relations campaign aimed at displaying its primacy within Lebanon. This campaign [...]
