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Lebanese party seeks Damascus’s approval after rejecting Hezbollah presidential candidate

Lebanon’s former president Michel Aoun has traveled to Syria to shore up relations with Damascus after his party rejected Hezbollah’s preferred presidential candidate. The Free Patriotic Movement said Aoun, its leader, “traveled on…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah says not linked to accused in UNIFIL peacekeeper killing

Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Friday denied that five men accused by a military tribunal of killing an Irish UN peacekeeper in 2022 were linked to the armed Shiite group. A court document filed on Thursday had identified some of the five as…

Hezbollah accused of deliberately killing peacekeeper

Hezbollah members have been accused by a military court of intentionally killing a UNIFIL soldier and injuring others in an ambush of their vehicle in southern Lebanon. Judge Fadi Sawan ruled in a provisional decision after concluding…

31 Lebanese MPs call for end to Hezbollah’s armed status

Thirty-one reformist, independent, and opposition MPs expressed their concern on Friday about a military maneuver carried out by Hezbollah in the town of Aaramta in southern Lebanon. The MPs said they believe such a maneuver, which they…

Hezbollah chief calls on Lebanon’s central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles

The chief of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday called on the country’s central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles. The governor, Riad Salameh, should either step down or be stripped of his responsibilities,…

At least 1 killed, several wounded in gunfire near Beirut protest

Gunfire erupts near Hezbollah-led protest calling for the removal of the judge from Beirut blast investigation. Beirut, Lebanon – At least one person has been killed and several others wounded when gunfire erupted near a Hezbollah-led…

Pompeo: Hezbollah weapons risk torpedoing French efforts in Lebanon

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned France that its efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon would be in vain without immediately tackling the issue of Iran-backed Hezbollah’s weaponry. “The United States has assumed its…

Nasrallah: Israel turns attention to hitting missile-making sites in Syria

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday that Israel is now concentrating its attacks in Syria on missile-manufacturing sites. Nasrallah said that with Assad firmly in control, Israel has turned its attention more…