Tag: Lebanon

Lebanon president calls Israeli bridge strikes ‘prelude to ground invasion’

(Al Arabiya) Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Sunday slammed Israeli strikes on bridges and other infrastructure in the country’s south, calling such attacks a...

Israel directs army to accelerate destruction of homes in Lebanese ‘frontline villages’

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed the military to accelerate the...

Rocket fire from Lebanon kills one in north Israel as Hezbollah claims attacks

(AFP/Al Arabiya) Israel said rocket fire from Lebanon killed one person on Sunday as Hezbollah said it attacked soldiers in northern Israel, the first...

How Iran’s IRGC rebooted Lebanon’s Hezbollah to be ready for war

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) rebuilt Hezbollah’s military command after it was mauled by Israel in 2024, plugging gaps with Iranian...

US slaps sanctions on global Hezbollah financial network

(Al Arabiya) The US Treasury Department announced on Friday new sanctions against a global financial network supporting Hezbollah and enabling the diversion of over...

IMF team in Paris meeting with Lebanese authorities on Iran war’s impact

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) A team of International Monetary Fund officials is in Paris this week for meetings with Lebanese authorities on an initial assessment of...

Israeli strikes on central Beirut kill 12: Ministry

(Al Arabiya) Israeli strikes on central Beirut on Wednesday morning killed at least 12 people, the Lebanese health ministry said in updated tolls. The...

US encourages Syrian action against Hezbollah, Damascus is hesitant, sources say

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) The United States has encouraged Syria to consider sending forces into eastern Lebanon to help disarm Hezbollah, but Damascus is reluctant to...

La paura della guerra ibrida

(Marzia Giglioli) La guerra in Iran ogni giorno presenta scenari diversi, difficili da inserire in uno schema che pensavamo in qualche modo di conoscere o...

Lebanon Wracked by Spillover from the Iran War

(The Soufan Center) Renewed fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, a spillover of the Iran war, has undermined more than a year of fragile stability...

Beirut, 8 dead in Israeli raids in the east of the country

The Lebanese Ministry of Health says that eight people died in the evening following Israeli attacks in the east of the country. The attack...

Lebanon, 634 dead and over 800,000 displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah war

Lebanon announced today that the death toll from 10 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah during the war in the Middle East has...

The Illegality of Israel’s Military Campaign in Lebanon

(Adil Ahmad Haque - Just Security) Israel and the United States began major military operations against Iran on Feb. 28. In response, Hezbollah began...

Israel says killed head of Hezbollah unit in south Lebanon

(AFP/Al Arabiya) Israel announced on Monday that its military had killed the head of Hezbollah’s Nasr unit operating in part of southern Lebanon during...

Human Rights Watch: Israel uses white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon

(Human Rights Watch) The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of...

For Hezbollah, is the writing on the wall?

(Zac Weisz - GZero) Overnight, Israel’s military shifted part of its focus to a new front, one that isn’t Iran: it pummeled the Lebanese...