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2025-04-11 21:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon and the Muscat negotiations
BEIRUT — As U.S. pressure on Hezbollah escalates, the Lebanese, as well as those in West Asia and the larger world, are anticipating the U.S.-Iran negotiations.
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2025-04-10 02:16
Israeli military drone crashes in Lebanon
The Israeli army said Wednesday evening that one of its drones crashed in Lebanese territory due to a “technical malfunction.”
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2025-04-09 19:32
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Geagea is standing against Aoun and Salam
BEIRUT — Despite having four ministers in the Lebanese cabinet, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea is waging a “battle” against President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to secure major gains ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections and to avoid being treated as a non-partisan party in any domestic or regional settlement.
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2025-04-08 21:51
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon after Ortagus’ ill-fated visit
BEIRUT — The detailed discussions of Morgan Ortagus, the US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East, during her ill-fated three-day visit to Beirut, forced an urgent meeting between heads of Lebanon’s executive and legislative powers, especially those related to the completion of the implementation of UN Resolution 1701.
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2025-04-04 19:29
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon is caught between a rock and a hard place:
Either to forcibly disarm Hezbollah or resume aggression
South Lebanon —Following the recent bombing of two residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, fears have grown of Israeli adventurism that would increasingly violate the Lebanese sovereignty as part of a military-political process aimed at the final elimination of Hezbollah.
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2025-04-04 19:23
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon a ‘blatant assault’ on country’s sovereignty: PM
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has condemned Israel’s latest attack on civilians in the country, which took place this morning on the city of Sidon.
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2025-04-01 15:08
Israeli targets residential building in Beirut suburb, 4 killed
President Aoun denounces the air raid as 'a serious warning of hostile intentions'
An Israeli airstrike targeted a multistory building in the southern suburb of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, early on Tuesday, Al Mayadeen reported.
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2025-03-30 02:34
Sheikh Qassem: Hezbollah patience not endless
‘If Israel does not comply, we will have no choice but to resort to other options’
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed on Saturday that International Al-Quds Day is a day of solidarity with the occupied Al-Quds and all the oppressed all over the world against the tyrants.
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2025-03-28 16:49
Israel strikes Beirut for first time since Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire
Israeli warplanes launched at least three airstrikes in Beirut on Friday, creating chaos as residents rushed to leave.
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2025-03-26 19:36
Nobody in Lebanon wants normal ties with Israel, PM says
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has reaffirmed that no one in the country wants to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, after senior officials in Beirut accused Israeli authorities of seeking to do so, The National reported.
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2025-03-24 02:11
Iran urges UN Security Council to take immediate step to stop Israeli raids on Lebanon
TEHRAN – Iran on Sunday strongly condemned Israel’s extensive military strikes on various parts of Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement, saying it is the responsibility of the international community, especially the UN Security Council and the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to take immediate and effective step to halt the Zionist regime’s military strikes.
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2025-03-23 03:14
By Batool Subeiti
Connection between the regional fronts in West Asia
LONDON - Under Trump, the U.S. initially sought to pause the war on Gaza in hopes of reaching a negotiated settlement and assessing possible solutions. However, when it became clear that the Palestinian resistance remained strong and could not be sidelined, the U.S. recognized that the Western position in negotiations was weak.
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2025-03-22 19:03
President blasts Israel for trying to drag Lebanon into new 'cycle of violence'
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has denounced “the attempts to drag Lebanon anew into the cycle of violence,” after at least two civilians were killed when Israeli military aircraft carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement with the Arab country.
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2025-03-18 02:28
Child killed as Syria’s HTS militants shell civilians in eastern Lebanon
A child has been killed and four other civilians injured as militants aligned with Syria’s ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime launched a volley of rockets at a residential neighborhood in Lebanon’s eastern province of Baalbek-Hermel.
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2025-03-17 22:20
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Washington’s open interference in selecting Lebanon’s central banker
BEIRUT — In continuation of the recent U.S.-led Israeli military attacks on Lebanon and following the election of Joseph Aoun as President of the Republic and the appointment of Nawaf Salam as Prime Minister, American pressure on Lebanon is escalating in an attempt to “undermine” the influence of Hezbollah and its allies.
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2025-03-17 15:31
IRCS dispatches humanitarian aid to Lebanon
TEHRAN –The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has sent a shipment of aid to war-impacted people in Lebanon.
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2025-03-12 21:38
By Sondoss Al Asaad
US order to Lebanon: Normalization with Israel, first and last
SOUTH LEBANON — Following her previous provocative statement in Beirut that Hezbollah should have no share in the government, Morgan Ortagus, the deputy presidential special envoy to the Middle East, has said the outcome of current events is ultimately a “peace” agreement between Beirut and Tel Aviv.
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2025-03-11 22:09
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon quite prone to sectarian violence in Syria
BEIRUT — The massacres that are taking place against the Syrian civilians, especially against the Alawite sect, have exposed the hypocrisy of claims by the HTS-led regime that it is seeking to provide security, peace, dignity and justice for the Syrian people.
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2025-03-11 15:45
IRCS to send humanitarian aid to Lebanon
TEHRAN –The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) plans to send a consignment of relief items to war-impacted people in Lebanon.
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2025-03-10 22:43
By Sondoss Al Asaad
World Bank complicating reconstruction process in Lebanon
BEIRUT — At a malicious political timing that matches the anti-resistance conspiracy to prevent the reconstruction of what has been left behind by the US-led Israeli aggression, the World Bank issued a report titled “Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment in Lebanon”.
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2025-03-09 23:13
Lebanon's visually impaired population rises sharply after Israel's pager attacks
Lebanon is grappling with a sharp increase in its visually impaired population following Israel's deadly pager attacks in September 2024, which left hundreds blind, including men, women, and children.
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2025-03-07 22:10
By Sondoss Al Asaad
American PAGER Act intended to blackmail Lebanon and paralyze Hezbollah
BEIRUT — In an expected escalation, American Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has reintroduced the Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism, aka the PAGER Act, which would prohibit aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces until the Lebanese government revokes its recognition of the Shiite duo.
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2025-03-04 21:16
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Washington seeking to impose “Eisenhower Doctrine” on Lebanon
BEIRUT – The pretexts that imperialist colonial powers manipulate to expand their influence vary. What is happening today at Beirut airport is nothing new. It is obvious that the US is only trying to ensure its control over Lebanon’s vital facilities and airports.
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2025-03-02 22:26
Pezeshkian says Gaza, Lebanon need more Muslim support as previous inaction takes toll
TEHRAN – As Iranians began the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday after the sighting of the crescent moon, President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a message to fellow Muslim leaders in the region, asking to work in tandem to alleviate the pain and suffering of the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been subject to brutal Israeli aggression over the past 18 months.
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2025-03-01 21:29
Lebanon will ask Saudi Arabia to resume $3-billion grant to army
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun will ask Saudi Arabia to reactivate a $3-billion aid package to the Lebanese army in his visit to the kingdom next week, Aoun said in an interview with Asharq television broadcast on Friday.
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2025-03-01 20:17
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Resistance community won’t give up national principles
SOUTH LEBANON – Following the failure of the US-led Israeli aggression to achieve its strategic goals in Lebanon, the American embassy in Beirut continues to impose the defeat narrative on the collective conscience of Lebanon’s pro-resistance community in a bid to convince them that fighting Israel is in vain.
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2025-02-26 22:46
Hezbollah chief hosts Iran parliament speaker, FM in show of Resistance solidarity
TEHRAN – Iran’s parliamentary and diplomatic leadership concluded a landmark visit to Beirut last week, reinforcing Tehran’s unshakable alliance with Hezbollah and vowing to sustain the Resistance Front against Israeli occupation and Western interference.
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2025-02-25 22:52
By Najah Mohammed Ali
Hezbollah leaders’ funeral: a message of unyielding determination and resistance
TEHRAN – On February 23, 2025, Lebanon's capital, Beirut, witnessed a historic event—the funeral procession of two great martyrs, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din. Hundreds of thousands of people from various parts of Lebanon and neighboring countries gathered to express their grief and loyalty to the path of Resistance.
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2025-02-24 22:05
Nasrallah’s funeral a 'historic epic' for region, says top Iranian general
TEHRAN – The funeral of Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was a monumental event etching itself into the history of Lebanon and the broader West Asian region, said Iran's top military official.
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2025-02-24 22:03
Iran committed to Lebanon's national consensus, Qalibaf affirms
TEHRAN – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf reiterated Iran's commitment to Lebanon's independence and self-determination, stating that Iran would support any decision made by the Lebanese people.