Mikati-Hezbollah government stays on after Hassan assassination Middle East Online | Lebanon's premier, under intense political flak over a car bombing that killed a senior security official, said on Saturday he would stay on after the president said it would be in the national interest. | Prime Minister Najib Mikati spoke after an urgent cabinet meeting discussed the Friday bombi...
Syria blamed for Lebanon car bomb BBC News Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have accused Damascus of being behind a powerful car bomb that killed the head of Lebanon's internal intelligence. | Opposition leader Saad Hariri and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt both said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was behind the bombing in Beirut. A Sy...
Iran: Hezbollah drone down by Israel not 'latest' technology Star Tribune | TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's defense minister says his country has drones far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah and downed by Israel earlier this month. | Sunday's report by the official IRNA news agency appears simi...
Hizbollah Is Thinking Of Abandoning Syria And It's A Pretty Big Deal Business Insider | Hizbollah has been one of the staunchest supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, but now there are bitter arguments within its ranks about whether it is time to change course. | The giant banner with a portrait of Bashar al-Assad, st...
Hezbollah straddles narrow line Gulf News | BEIRUT: The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has spent months trying to tread a narrow line, balancing its support for the Syrian government with its responsibilities as Lebanon’s dominant political force. But increasing tensions inside Lebano...
Syrian conflict creates sectarian pressures on Lebanon, Hezbollah The Independent | The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has spent months trying to tread a narrow line, balancing its support for the Syrian government with its responsibilities as Lebanon's dominant political force. But increasing tensions inside Lebanon have undersc...
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Hezbollah Says It Flew Iranian-Designed Drone Into Israel The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah, declared Thursday that his fighters had assembled and piloted a d...
Hezbollah Confirms It Sent UAV Into Israel The Inquisitr | Posted: October 11, 2012 | BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged on Thursday sending a drone aircraft that was shot down last we...
Europe should label Hezbollah a terrorist group, U.S. urges The Washington Post | White House counterterrorism chief John O. Brennan said Friday that European failure to join the United States in designating the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah a terrorist organization is undermining international counterterrorism efforts....
The real purpose of the Hezbollah drone Ha'aretz | In taking responsibility for the October 6 dispatch of an unmanned aerial vehicle over southern Israel, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said: "It is our natural right to send other reconnaissance flights inside occupied Palestine...&q...;
Lebanon's Hezbollah drawn into Syria conflict BBC News Southern Lebanon is very much Hezbollah country. | The highly-organised Shia organisation garners much of its domestic support from the traditional villages in this hilly region. | It runs schools, hospitals and local politics in these parts, not to ...
Hezbollah Confirms It Sent UAV Into Israel The Inquisitr | Posted: October 11, 2012 | BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged on Thursday sending a drone aircraft that was shot down last weekend after flying some 25 miles into Israel. | Nasrallah said in a televised speech that the drone’s parts were manufactured in Iran and it was assembled by member...
UN calls for action to end Myanmar violence Al Jazeera | The UN has called for "urgent action" to prevent the spread of intercommunal violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, after recent clashes killed dozens of people and left thousands homeless. | The organisation said a team lead by Ashok Nigam, its Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator, had visited the state and seen "large scale destruction of house...
