A high-profile speech by Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem this evening produced few surprises, as he reiterated backing for the terms of this summer’s US-Iran deal, support for UN Resolution 1701, but rejection of this summer’s tripartite deals between the US, Israel and...
Despite myriad rounds of US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon yielding effectively no pledges for Israel to stop attacking or ever withdraw from occupied southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials, incredibly, are continuing to try to frame the active invasion...
Earlier this week, Lebanese officials seized a truckload of explosives in the northeastern Hermel region, leading to accusations from some of the officials of an impending Hezbollah assassination campaign involving bombs. On Thursday, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah...
Anticipating another round of war with Hezbollah despite the fact that the current Israeli invasion of Lebanon hasn’t even ended, Defense Minister Israel Katz laid out a litany of threats against Lebanon that would happen if Hezbollah “joins Iran” in any attack on...
Last week it was reported that Iran had provided Hezbollah with some $200 million to help provide for those Lebanese civilians who lost homes so far during the Israeli invasion. Today, Hezbollah began to provide details about how the program would work. The plan is to...
With Hezbollah squarely in the political opposition, Lebanese officials have been hoping for awhile that the ongoing Israeli invasion would further alienate Hezbollah from the public, as an active combatant force and, at least by Israel’s framing, the reason for the...
In a pair of comments that broadly reflect why the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon shows no sign of ending, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hezbollah Executive Council head Ali Damoush both addressed their respective crowds and laid out their goals....
MP Mohammad Raad, the head of Hezbollah’s political wing, has given a new interview with al-Modon in which he set out “red lines” related to ways in which Hezbollah would agree to enter into talks on disarmament and the granting of a full state monopoly on arms. Raad...
Late Monday, Israeli ground troops carried out an attack against the southeastern Lebanese town of Baraachit, killing one civilian in the barrage of machine gun fire. Exactly why the attack was carried out has yet to be disclosed by Israeli officials, though the...
Israel continues to carry out attacks across southern Lebanon, with artillery shelling reported in Mansouri and Zawtar al-Shariya and civilian homes being destroyed in multiple occupied municipalities. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri issued a statement warning...
