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Today 18:51
By Shahrokh Saei
Beyond bombs: Israel’s expansionist narrative in Lebanon
TEHRAN – Israel is waging a hybrid war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, weaving continued military strikes with a propaganda campaign and ongoing occupation. This multi-front assault is not merely tactical; it is a strategic effort to lay the diplomatic and narrative groundwork for a far broader military escalation.
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Today 17:58
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Turkish discontent with Lebanon over the Cyprus maritime agreement
BEIRUT—Turkey’s dissatisfaction with Lebanon has crystallized sharply following Beirut’s decision to sign a maritime border demarcation and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) agreement with Cyprus with coordination with Ankara or Damascus.
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Yesterday 21:52
Leader’s aide reiterates Iran’s backing for Hezbollah amid US push to disarm Lebanese Resistance
TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s Leader and the country's former foreign minister, stated to Hezbollah’s representative in Tehran that Iranians will continue to lend their full support to the group in the face of Israeli aggression on Lebanon and an American push for the Lebanese government to disarm the Resistance movement.
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Yesterday 19:51
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel’s media war fails to divide Iran and Lebanon
TEHRAN – Israeli media and their affiliates recently tried to stir the pot, spotlighting a brief back-and-forth between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Lebanese counterpart Youssef Raggi, in an effort to paint the two countries as being at odds.
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Yesterday 17:25
Israel committed war crimes by targeting Lebanon’s reconstruction equipment: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Israel for committing war crimes by repeatedly targeting reconstruction-related equipment and civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025, despite a ceasefire that came into effect on November 27, 2024.
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Yesterday 15:06
Israel launches deadly drone strikes in southern Lebanon
At least three people were killed in southern Lebanon on Monday in violent Israeli drone attacks targeting multiple villages.
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2025-12-12 21:49
Lebanon's FM sees public bickering with Iran cool
In latest exchange, Araghchi welcomes an invitation to visit, aiming to address anger Lebanese people say must be directed at Israel
TEHRAN – A public back-and-forth between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Lebanese counterpart, Youssef Rajji, may now be entering a lull. The de-escalation follows Araghchi's announcement on X that he had accepted Rajji’s invitation to visit Beirut to sort out their differences—a move prompted by Rajji’s apparent unwillingness to travel to Tehran.
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2025-12-12 18:44
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel’s aggressive blueprint: A rebuttal to Lebanon’s pro-Israel propaganda
BEIRUT—In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again peeled back the last veneer of diplomatic pretence.
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2025-12-12 17:00
Israel launches heavy strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon in new ceasefire violation
In another ceasefire violation, the Israeli military carried out heavy attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon on Friday, claiming in a statement that it struck Hezbollah military infrastructure and a “training camp,” The Cradle reported.
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2025-12-10 18:53
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah’s role in Syria: 10 years that reshaped West Asia
BEIRUT — On the first anniversary of Syria’s collapse, Hezbollah’s intervention stands as one of the most consequential, and persistently distorted, events in contemporary regional history.
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2025-12-09 19:26
Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire again, unleashing heavy airstrikes and ground demolitions
TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes unleashed a heavy barrage across southern Lebanon late Monday into Tuesday, hammering Jabal Safi, the valley between Azza and Roumine, and multiple sites in Iqlim al-Tuffah.
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2025-12-06 19:03
By Sondoss Al Asaad
LF outsourcing patriotism to the occupiers: See how it ended in Afghanistan
BEIRUT—No contradiction in Lebanese politics is more glaring than the desire of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to see the Israeli enemy resolve their political dispute inside Lebanon. A party that claims to defend state sovereignty routinely seeks foreign intervention against a Lebanese actor with a proven popular and national base.
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2025-12-05 21:19
Hezbollah leader: Israel seeks to grab Lebanon under ‘Greater Israel’ scheme
Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem accuses Israel of pursuing an “expansionist agenda” under the banner of a so-called “Greater Israel,” warning that Lebanon is the next target of occupation.
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2025-12-05 18:16
Iraq demands accountability after erroneous wording appears in anti-terror decree
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Thursday directed authorities to open an immediate investigation into a significant editorial error that appeared in a counter-terrorism decision published last month in Iraq’s official gazette.
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2025/12/02
By Fatemeh Kavand
Iran, Lebanon, and the fog of West’s psychological warfare
The recent remarks by Lebanon’s foreign minister about “Iranian interference” have triggered a wave of reactions across the region’s political landscape.
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2025-12-01 19:09
By Nabil Mansour
Could the Pope’s Lebanon visit temper Israeli threats and mend political divisions?
BEIRUT - Pope Leo XIV’s arrival in Beirut—his first foreign trip since ascending the papacy—comes at a moment when Lebanon is poised between escalating Israeli threats and a political class locked in chronic division.
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2025-11-30 19:01
Pope Leo XIV begins Lebanon visit expected to deliver strong peace appeal
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, marking the second and final stop of his first foreign tour as head of the Catholic Church, where he is expected to deliver a strong appeal for peace, Al Mayadeen reported.
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2025-11-29 16:58
Hezbollah message to Pope Leo rejects Israeli aggression, affirms sovereignty and coexistence
On the occasion of the Pope’s Lebanon visit, Hezbollah issued a statement on Saturday, presenting the country as a bridge of interfaith coexistence, urging protection of human rights at the level of peoples, condemning atrocities in Gaza and aggression in Lebanon, and reaffirming commitment to national sovereignty, consensual democracy, and unified living.
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2025-11-29 13:29
Hezbollah pledges response to Israeli assassination of top commander Haitham Al‑Tabtabai
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned that the resistance group has the right to retaliate to the assassination of senior commander Haitham Al-Tabtabai, affirming that surrender is not an option, Al Manar reported.
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2025-11-28 17:44
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon, one year after a sham “ceasefire”
BEIRUT — A year after the ceasefire was declared between Lebanon and Israel, the country remains suspended in a fragile limbo, caught between persistent security threats, entrenched political fractures, and mounting international pressures.
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2025-11-26 21:56
Hezbollah now ‘more vital than ever’, says Leader's aide following Israeli truce violations
TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on International Affairs, said Israel’s latest attacks on Lebanon demonstrate more clearly than ever the vital role of Hezbollah in safeguarding the country’s security and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-26 21:24
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The unfailing reservoir behind Hezbollah
BEIRUT — For decades, the United States and Israel have repeatedly wagered that relentless pressure would erode the resolve of those loyal to the Resistance.
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2025-11-26 21:23
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel’s Beirut strike exposes collapse of international law, Lebanese analyst warns
Adnan Alameh says UN and global powers have failed to enforce the truce agreement, leaving Lebanon vulnerable to repeated raids
TEHRAN – The recent Israeli strike on Beirut nearly a year after the ceasefire with Hezbollah has raised urgent questions about the effectiveness of international law and the enforcement of UN resolutions in Lebanon. For Adnan Alameh, a Lebanese political analyst, the incident reflects not only Israel’s strategic ambitions but also the broader failure of the international community to restrain violations of sovereignty.
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2025-11-25 21:03
A ceasefire in name only
TEHRAN – Haitham Ali Tabatabai, a senior commander of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was assassinated and martyred on November 23 during an Israeli airstrike on southern Dahieh in Beirut, along with several of his comrades.
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2025-11-24 21:54
Iran says no option but to ‘confront’ Israel after attack on Beirut
TEHRAN – Iran has strongly reacted to the recent Israeli aggression in Lebanon that led to the assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai.
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2025-11-24 21:42
By Shahrokh Saei
Truce as trap
Israel’s Beirut strike exposes ceasefire as a cover for carnage, with Tabtabai’s killing raising fears of wider war
TEHRAN – Nearly a year after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, and just weeks after a truce with Hamas in Gaza, the situation on the ground shows that neither agreement has brought lasting calm.
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2025-11-24 18:51
Beirut struck: Resistance strategy vindicated
Israel, the principal agent of disorder in the region, this time shed even the pretense of moral restraint and, without the slightest warning, attacked the Lebanese capital on November 23.
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2025-11-24 11:22
Hezbollah announces martyrdom of Haytham Ali Al-Tabtabai
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has issued a statement after Israel assassinated the movement’s top commander in a strike in southern Beirut. This is the text of the statement published by Al-Manar:
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2025-11-22 19:16
Wave of Israeli attacks targets southern Lebanon towns and valleys
Israeli forces renewed their aggression on Lebanon on Saturday with a series of airstrikes, targeting areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, in a continued violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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2025-11-17 17:34
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah’s unshakable echo: Mourning the mind that engineered resistance discourse
BEIRUT—With the assassination of Hajj Mohammad Afif Al-Naboulsi by the Zionist regime in an air raid in November last year, the Resistance loses not merely a media official, but one of the rare architects who shaped collective consciousness in times of war and calm alike.