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By Sondoss Al Asaad
Shutdown of “Whish Money” accounts is another phase of financial blockade on Lebanon
BEIRUT—Lebanon has been witnessing an escalating financial blockade for weeks after Whish Money (a local money transfer company) closed the accounts of associations and activists supporting reconstruction projects.
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2025-10-13 22:11
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon between Gaza truce and fiery messages
An upcoming confrontation or a moment of repositioning!
BEIRUT—West Asia is entering a pivotal stage following the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip brokered by US President Donald Trump. However, what appears to be the end of a bloody phase in the Strip opens the door to a highly sensitive phase for Lebanon.
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2025-10-11 22:04
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon foils high-risk Israeli terror operation in major security success
BEIRUT — Amid the escalating challenges facing Lebanon, the General Directorate of General Security’s announcement of the dismantling of a foreign-run spy network working for the Israeli enemy marked a significant step.
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2025-10-11 21:57
Israel carries out 10 strikes in southern Lebanon, cutting key power lines
Israeli warplanes carried out a series of intense airstrikes along Musaylih Road in southern Lebanon overnight on October 11, cutting off the main route and plunging large parts of the south into darkness after severing key power lines, the Cradle reported.
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2025-10-10 20:45
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Imam Mahdi scouts: A model of construction and resistance in a time of political impotence
BEIRUT—Beirut is preparing to host the largest scout gathering in Lebanon’s history, marking the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Hezbollah’s Imam Mahdi Scouts Association, amid the martyrdom anniversary of Hezbollah secretaries-general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.
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2025-10-08 17:26
By Sondos Al-Asaad
Why did Hezbollah enter the war to support Gaza?
BEIRUT — Hezbollah entered the war in support of Gaza within a broader, cumulative context that went beyond political fervor or fleeting emotion.
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2025-10-07 20:20
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Resalat suspension: Turning law into a tool to counter cultural resistance
The proposed suspension of Resalat is the result of narrow political calculations
BEIRUT—In a move described as an attempt to save Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s image and avoid a new political crisis, the Lebanese government has decided to “suspend” the license granted to the Lebanese Association for the Arts (Resalat).
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2025-10-05 18:42
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The move to dissolve Hezbollah’s cultural association is spiteful
BEIRUT — Ignoring the ongoing U.S.–led Israeli aggression and the stifling economic crisis, the Lebanese government has prioritized putting on its agenda a draft resolution to dissolve the Lebanese Association for Arts.
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2025-10-05 18:25
By Batool Subeiti
How hostile forces may test Lebanon’s resistance
LONDON - New tactics and concealed strengths suggest the Lebanese resistance has changed, but its exact nature is unknown.
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2025-10-04 19:38
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Salam’s cabinet: US dictates first, Lebanon’s interests last
BEIRUT—Recent developments make it clear that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government has adopted policies closely aligned with American directives.
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2025-10-03 18:38
By Sondoss Al Asaad
US pushing Lebanon into chaos under guise of financial and security support
BEIRUT—Recent developments reveal that Lebanon is being forcibly pushed down a dangerous path, as the United States works to transform the Lebanese Army from a national institution into a tool within its regional program aimed at disarming Hezbollah.
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2025-09-30 17:55
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Why does Lebanese Forces party continue to incite discord?
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Forces party is openly framing the upcoming elections as an existential battle, amplifying rhetoric that risks fuelling internal discord through media campaigns and theatrical displays in Parliament.
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2025/09/29
By Xavier Villar
Strategic balance: Ali Larijani reassesses the Iran–Lebanon alliance in face of US pressure
MADRID – Ali Larijani’s recent visit to Beirut, in his capacity as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, marks a significant moment in the Islamic Republic’s diplomacy and its relations with a country that remains central to the political chessboard of West Asia.
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2025-09-29 19:08
Deadly Israeli drone strike hits eastern Lebanon
One person was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beqaa Valley of eastern Lebanon on Monday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, according to local media.
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2025-09-29 18:28
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah upsets the enemy’s calculations
BEIRUT—The commemoration of the first anniversary of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s martyrdom served as a pivotal moment for the Resistance to recalibrate its internal dynamics, with the massive turnout underscoring Hezbollah’s enduring popular support and organizational unity.
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2025-09-29 13:51
Mumbai commemorates martyrdom anniversary of Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah
MUMBAI — On 28th September 2025, the faithful gathered at Masjid-e-Iranian (Mughal Masjid), Mumbai, to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, a leader whose life embodied courage, sacrifice, and defiance against oppression.
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2025-09-28 19:14
By Sondoss Al Asaad
How did Nawaf Salam’s government relinquish Lebanon’s maritime rights?
BEIRUT — With every step Lebanon takes to demarcate its borders in an effort to assert its rights, the outcome seems to be yet another loss. This was the case in 2007, again in 2022, and it is unfolding once more today.
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2025-09-27 22:13
‘Israel a threat to all’, Larijani says in Beirut during commemoration of Hezbollah late leaders
TEHRAN – Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani has warned that the Zionist regime poses a threat to all countries in the region, emphasizing that recent developments—including the attack in Qatar—have made Israel’s aggressive behavior increasingly clear.
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2025-09-27 20:16
Sheikh Qassem warns of 'Karbala-like' confrontation, honors assassinated leaders
In an address on the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashim Safi al-Din on Saturday, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem declared his movement will not disarm, saying removal of weapons would serve Israeli aims and provoke a "Karbala-like" confrontation.
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2025-09-27 20:12
By Batool Subeiti
Lebanon and the illusion of control: America's strategic blindness in Middle East
LONDON -- Most short- and medium-term strategies adopted by the West — through its various American administrations — are either partially realized or fail to materialize. That’s how the vision of a “new Middle East” has unfolded, nearly two years into the war on Gaza.
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2025-09-27 19:21
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Martyrdom anniversary of Nasrallah: Intersections of popular and political discourse
BEIRUT — The first anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah became a transnational event, bringing together the deep popular sentiment on the one hand and its political and regional dimensions on the other.
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2025/09/27
By Khaled Hussein
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: A pioneering journey
BEIRUT - Sayyed Hassan was born in Beirut in 1960, and his lineage goes back to Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them). He was raised in a religiously committed environment and traveled to Najaf al-Ashraf, where he pursued his religious studies and studied under Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Sayyed Abbas al-Moussawi, then continued his studies at the Hawza of Imam al-Muntadhar (peace be upon him).
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2025/09/27
By Garsha Vazirian
A foreign blueprint for Lebanon’s disarmament
How Washington and Tel Aviv are pressing Beirut to surrender a guarantor of deterrence — and why that project risks national collapse
TEHRAN – On the eve of a year since the assassination of the Lebanese resistance leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah — a shock that reoriented Lebanon’s politics and public mood — a new campaign to “restore a state monopoly on weapons” has moved from the drawing board into government corridors.
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2025-09-27 17:51
By Garsha Vazirian
Hezbollah's invisible commander: The man who mastered the machinery of Resistance
While others focused on military operations, Safieddine built the infrastructure that sustained the struggle
TEHRAN – In the intricate tapestry of Lebanese resistance, few figures have wielded influence as quietly yet decisively as Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.
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2025/09/27
By Wesam Bahrani
Historic icon, leader and warrior
TEHRAN – Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was both an icon and a warrior, a symbol of unwavering resistance and a man of remarkable courage.
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2025/09/27
By Mohammad Sadegh Alizadeh
The Lebanon I witnessed
TEHRAN - Younes, a young Hezbollah fighter in his early 30s, accompanied our Iranian team during our visit to Lebanon for the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. On our way back from the war-torn southern regions to Beirut, he constantly briefed us on the situation along the frontlines.
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2025-09-23 19:48
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah: One year after the large-scale aggression
BEIRUT — With the first anniversary of the large-scale U.S.–led Israeli aggression against Lebanon, which lasted more than two months, the question arises about Hezbollah’s position today in light of regional and international transformations.
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2025-09-23 18:42
Tom Barrack: US arms Lebanon to ‘fight its own people’
In an interview with the National released Monday, U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack defended Washington’s push to make the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) the agent of Hezbollah’s disarmament — even as he conceded the U.S. will not equip the army to confront Israel.
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2025-09-22 21:16
By Sondos Al-Asaad
Bint Jbeil tragedy and Ortagus’ responsibility
BEIRUT — While President Joseph Aoun is leading a Lebanese delegation to participate in the UN General Assembly meetings in New York, Israel committed a new massacre in Bint Jbeil on Sunday afternoon, resulting in the murder of five citizens, including three children.
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2025-09-21 21:04
Israeli drone strike kills three children and their father in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon
On Sunday, Israel killed three children and their father in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, when a drone strike hit a motorcycle just as a family car passed by.