Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah has said that senior military commander Fuad Shukr was inside the building in Beirut’s southern suburbs hit by Israel the other day and that his fate was still unknown. The Israeli military claimed that its Tuesday strike had “eliminated” Shukr, a top Hezbollah commander it said was respo...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan has denied any “finalized agreement” regarding the situation along Lebanon’s border with Israel. “Our front will not stop as long as the (Israeli) aggression against Gaza continues and the threat of war will not frighten us,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech. He...
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Western powers of backing what he said were Israeli plans to attack Lebanon and “spread war” throughout the region. “Israel is now setting its sights on Lebanon and we see that Western powers behind the scenes are patting Israel on the ba...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned Cyprus against opening its airports and bases to Israel in the event of total war with his armed movement. “Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon would mean that the Cypriot government is part of the war, a...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed Friday that Israel will pay “with blood” for civilians killed this week in Lebanon, warning his group has missiles that can reach Israel’s far south. “The enemy will pay with blood” for every woman and child killed in Lebanon by cross-border fire, ...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP A Hezbollah commander, two other fighters and seven civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh, a security source said Thursday, raising the toll from a raid a day earlier. The deaths brought to 10 the total number of civilians killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, the highest [&...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that his group is ready for “unrestricted warfare” with Israel. “Israel and its army and settlers are the ones who fear war, not Lebanon,” Nasrallah said in a speech, one week after senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. “W...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel killed a top commander of the Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told AFP Monday. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander”, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on the road to Jerusalem” — the phrase used for fighters kill...
BEIRUT – AFP Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel against all-out conflict, after Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi, in a visit to the Lebanese border, said troops were “in very high readiness”. In a televised speech, Nasrallah said that “for now, we are fighting on the frontline following meticulous calcul...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Lebanese group Hezbollah, held talks in Beirut on Saturday with leaders of Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad to discuss developments in Palestine. The meeting, attended by Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhalah, ass...
