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November 24, 2025 1:51 PM

Israel Assassinates Hezbollah’s Top Military Commander in Beirut Airstrike

Israel announced it had killed Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, in a precision strike on a residential building in Beirut’s Dahieh district early Sunday, marking the first attack on the capital in more than five months and threatening to unravel a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said five people were killed and 28 wounded after missiles hit the upper floors of a 10-story apartment block in Haret Hreik, a Hezbollah stronghold. Rescue crews worke...

November 11, 2025 9:47 PM

Israel says Hezbollah trying to rebuild, smuggle in arms from Syria

The Israeli military accused Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Tuesday of seeking to rebuild its combat abilities in south Lebanon to the point of threatening Israel's security and undoing last year's ceasefire deal. Military spokesman Nadav Shoshani said the Iranian-backed Hezbollah was operating south of the Litani River in violation of the truce accord and that Israeli forces were conducting strikes on Hezbollah targets in that area. Shoshani told a news briefing that Hezbollah was also try...

November 9, 2025 12:43 PM

US sanctions official says time is right to cut Iran’s Hezbollah funding

The United States seeks to take advantage of a "moment" in Lebanon in which it can cut Iranian funding to Hezbollah and press the group to disarm, the U.S. Treasury Department's top sanctions official said. In a late Friday interview, John Hurley, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Iran has managed to funnel about $1 billion to Hezbollah this year despite a raft of Western sanctions that have battered its economy. The U.S. has adopted a "maximum pressure" campaig...

November 6, 2025 10:04 PM

Israel launches airstrikes on south Lebanon, says it’s targeting Hezbollah

The Israeli military carried out heavy airstrikes on south Lebanon on Thursday after issuing evacuation orders for three locations, saying Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was trying to rebuild its military capabilities there. The orders and strikes came despite a ceasefire deal agreed a year ago that was meant to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, and after months of the Lebanese army clearing Hezbollah sites in the south. There was no immediate toll prov...

April 9, 2025 2:27 PM

Facing calls to disarm, Hezbollah ready to discuss weapons if Israel withdraws, senior official says

As calls for Lebanon's Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told the media that the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes. The prospect of talks aimed at securing Hezbollah's disarmament - unimaginable when it was at the zenith of its power just two years ago - underlines dramatic shifts in the Middle East power balance since Israel pummelled the Iran-backed group in a dev...

February 24, 2025 12:31 PM

Israel sends tanks into West Bank, tells troops to ready for ‘extended’ stay

Israel sent tanks into the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than 20 years on Sunday as it ordered the military to prepare for an "extended stay" to fight Palestinian militant groups in the area's refugee camps. The move came as a fragile ceasefire in Gaza hit new hurdles after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a stop to the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees due to be freed under the truce, in retaliation for public displays of Israeli hostages handed ov...

February 21, 2025 2:47 PM

Lebanon’s Hezbollah to bury Nasrallah in mass funeral

Lebanon's Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in a mass funeral aimed at showing political strength after the group emerged badly weakened from last year's war. Nasrallah was killed on September 27 in an Israeli airstrike as he met commanders in a bunker in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stunning blow in the early phase of an Israeli offensive that has left the Iran-backed group a shadow of its former sel...

February 19, 2025 12:41 PM

Lebanese search for dead in devastated villages as Israel withdraws

Residents of south Lebanon returned to devastated villages on Tuesday, searching for the bodies of relatives killed in last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah, as Israeli troops withdrew from most of the territory. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel would complete its withdrawal from the south on Tuesday to meet a deadline set under a U.S.-backed ceasefire, but that it would temporarily remain in five points needed for its security. Hezbollah, which was badly pummelled in th...

January 31, 2025 2:57 PM

Israel targets Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, accuses group of ceasefire breach

The Israeli military said on Friday it struck several Hezbollah targets overnight in the Bekaa Valley and along the Syrian-Lebanese border. The army said the targets include a facility used for underground weapons development and another associated with the smuggling of arms into Lebanon. On Thursday, Israel said it intercepted a surveillance drone launched by Hezbollah calling it "a breach of the ceasefire agreement" between Israel and Lebanon. Hezbollah and Israel reached a ceasefire in lat...

January 10, 2025 11:20 AM

Lebanon’s army chief elected president, showing weakened Hezbollah

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after its devastating war with Israel. In a speech to the chamber, Aoun, 60, vowed to work to ensure the state has the exclusive right to carry arms, drawing loud applause as lawmakers from Hezbollah -- which runs its own military forces -- sat still. He promised to rebuild south Leb...