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Yesterday 19:26
Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire again, unleashing heavy airstrikes and ground demolitions
TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes unleashed a heavy barrage across southern Lebanon late Monday into Tuesday, hammering Jabal Safi, the valley between Azza and Roumine, and multiple sites in Iqlim al-Tuffah.
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2025-12-06 19:03
By Sondoss Al Asaad
LF outsourcing patriotism to the occupiers: See how it ended in Afghanistan
BEIRUT—No contradiction in Lebanese politics is more glaring than the desire of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to see the Israeli enemy resolve their political dispute inside Lebanon. A party that claims to defend state sovereignty routinely seeks foreign intervention against a Lebanese actor with a proven popular and national base.
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2025-12-05 21:19
Hezbollah leader: Israel seeks to grab Lebanon under ‘Greater Israel’ scheme
Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem accuses Israel of pursuing an “expansionist agenda” under the banner of a so-called “Greater Israel,” warning that Lebanon is the next target of occupation.
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2025-12-05 18:16
Iraq demands accountability after erroneous wording appears in anti-terror decree
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Thursday directed authorities to open an immediate investigation into a significant editorial error that appeared in a counter-terrorism decision published last month in Iraq’s official gazette.
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2025/12/02
By Fatemeh Kavand
Iran, Lebanon, and the fog of West’s psychological warfare
The recent remarks by Lebanon’s foreign minister about “Iranian interference” have triggered a wave of reactions across the region’s political landscape.
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2025-12-01 19:09
By Nabil Mansour
Could the Pope’s Lebanon visit temper Israeli threats and mend political divisions?
BEIRUT - Pope Leo XIV’s arrival in Beirut—his first foreign trip since ascending the papacy—comes at a moment when Lebanon is poised between escalating Israeli threats and a political class locked in chronic division.
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2025-11-30 19:01
Pope Leo XIV begins Lebanon visit expected to deliver strong peace appeal
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, marking the second and final stop of his first foreign tour as head of the Catholic Church, where he is expected to deliver a strong appeal for peace, Al Mayadeen reported.
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2025-11-29 16:58
Hezbollah message to Pope Leo rejects Israeli aggression, affirms sovereignty and coexistence
On the occasion of the Pope’s Lebanon visit, Hezbollah issued a statement on Saturday, presenting the country as a bridge of interfaith coexistence, urging protection of human rights at the level of peoples, condemning atrocities in Gaza and aggression in Lebanon, and reaffirming commitment to national sovereignty, consensual democracy, and unified living.
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2025-11-29 13:29
Hezbollah pledges response to Israeli assassination of top commander Haitham Al‑Tabtabai
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned that the resistance group has the right to retaliate to the assassination of senior commander Haitham Al-Tabtabai, affirming that surrender is not an option, Al Manar reported.
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2025-11-28 17:44
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon, one year after a sham “ceasefire”
BEIRUT — A year after the ceasefire was declared between Lebanon and Israel, the country remains suspended in a fragile limbo, caught between persistent security threats, entrenched political fractures, and mounting international pressures.
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2025-11-26 21:56
Hezbollah now ‘more vital than ever’, says Leader's aide following Israeli truce violations
TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on International Affairs, said Israel’s latest attacks on Lebanon demonstrate more clearly than ever the vital role of Hezbollah in safeguarding the country’s security and territorial integrity.
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2025-11-26 21:24
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The unfailing reservoir behind Hezbollah
BEIRUT — For decades, the United States and Israel have repeatedly wagered that relentless pressure would erode the resolve of those loyal to the Resistance.
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2025-11-26 21:23
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel’s Beirut strike exposes collapse of international law, Lebanese analyst warns
Adnan Alameh says UN and global powers have failed to enforce the truce agreement, leaving Lebanon vulnerable to repeated raids
TEHRAN – The recent Israeli strike on Beirut nearly a year after the ceasefire with Hezbollah has raised urgent questions about the effectiveness of international law and the enforcement of UN resolutions in Lebanon. For Adnan Alameh, a Lebanese political analyst, the incident reflects not only Israel’s strategic ambitions but also the broader failure of the international community to restrain violations of sovereignty.
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2025-11-25 21:03
A ceasefire in name only
TEHRAN – Haitham Ali Tabatabai, a senior commander of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was assassinated and martyred on November 23 during an Israeli airstrike on southern Dahieh in Beirut, along with several of his comrades.
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2025-11-24 21:54
Iran says no option but to ‘confront’ Israel after attack on Beirut
TEHRAN – Iran has strongly reacted to the recent Israeli aggression in Lebanon that led to the assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai.
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2025-11-24 21:42
By Shahrokh Saei
Truce as trap
Israel’s Beirut strike exposes ceasefire as a cover for carnage, with Tabtabai’s killing raising fears of wider war
TEHRAN – Nearly a year after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, and just weeks after a truce with Hamas in Gaza, the situation on the ground shows that neither agreement has brought lasting calm.
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2025-11-24 18:51
Beirut struck: Resistance strategy vindicated
Israel, the principal agent of disorder in the region, this time shed even the pretense of moral restraint and, without the slightest warning, attacked the Lebanese capital on November 23.
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2025-11-24 11:22
Hezbollah announces martyrdom of Haytham Ali Al-Tabtabai
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has issued a statement after Israel assassinated the movement’s top commander in a strike in southern Beirut. This is the text of the statement published by Al-Manar:
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2025-11-22 19:16
Wave of Israeli attacks targets southern Lebanon towns and valleys
Israeli forces renewed their aggression on Lebanon on Saturday with a series of airstrikes, targeting areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, in a continued violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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2025-11-17 17:34
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah’s unshakable echo: Mourning the mind that engineered resistance discourse
BEIRUT—With the assassination of Hajj Mohammad Afif Al-Naboulsi by the Zionist regime in an air raid in November last year, the Resistance loses not merely a media official, but one of the rare architects who shaped collective consciousness in times of war and calm alike.
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2025-11-14 20:04
By Sondoss Al Asaad
How Lebanese actors empower Israel
BEIRUT — Washington’s pressure campaign against Hezbollah is not new, but its latest tone is unmistakably sharper.
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2025-11-11 20:41
Hezbollah leader: Israeli aggression against Lebanon cannot continue
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned Tuesday that Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon threaten the country’s sovereignty and risk pushing the region toward broader conflict.
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2025-11-09 15:46
Hezbollah member martyred in Israeli drone strike amid ceasefire violations
Hezbollah has confirmed the martyrdom of one of its members, Hassan Ali Jamil Sultan, following an Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle in southern Lebanon on Sunday. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported earlier one fatality in the attack, which occurred in the town of Aita al-Shaab.
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2025-11-07 19:32
By Layla Saad
Voices of resistance dominate Beirut forum
BEIRUT — The 34th session of the Arab National Conference opened in Beirut on Friday with the participation of more than 250 political, intellectual, and academic figures from across the Arab world.
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2025-11-07 19:27
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah’s open book: No compromise with the enemy
BEIRUT—Amid rising tremors along Lebanon’s southern frontier, Hezbollah unveiled an open letter directed both to the Lebanese people and to the nation’s three top officials: the President of the Republic, the Speaker of Parliament, and the Prime Minister.
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2025-11-07 19:27
By Shahab Sarmad
Disarmament is a fig leaf for Israel’s campaign to dominate Lebanon
TEHRAN – Israel’s latest deadly airstrikes in southern Lebanon are not breaches of a ceasefire. They are the continuation of a war strategy dressed up as security enforcement.
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2025-11-07 14:02
President Aoun calls Israel’s raid on southern Lebanon ‘full-fledged crime’
At least one person has been killed and nine injured in a series of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, ratcheting up tensions and drawing condemnation from both the Lebanese government and the armed group Hezbollah as a flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire.
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2025-10-31 20:04
By Sondoss Al Asaad
President Aoun orders response as Senator Graham justifies Israeli incursions
BEIRUT — Tensions on the Lebanese-Palestinian border remain high, as Israeli forces repeatedly violate the cessation of hostilities. Exploiting weak international monitoring and Lebanon’s limited ability to enforce sovereignty, Israel targets civilians and state institutions alike.
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2025-10-31 15:57
Israeli attacks leave 29 dead in Lebanon this October despite ceasefire
One person was killed and others were injured in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Kunin on 31 October, The Cradle reported Friday, the latest in a recent string of deadly attacks on the country.
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2025-10-28 15:40
Hezbollah: The prudent actor
Lebanon’s Hezbollah stands today at one of the most sensitive junctures in its history — a situation rooted in the wider dynamics of West Asia and in the strategic policies pursued by Washington and Tel Aviv.