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Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri chairs a parliamentary session to elect a president, in Beirut, January 9, 2025. (Anwar Amro / AFP)
May 4, 2026, 4:59 pm
Lebanon’s Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker: No talks with Israel until war ends
US envoy to Beirut says meeting between Lebanon’s President Aoun and Netanyahu would not be a ‘loss or concession’ for Beirut, but rather an opportunity to ensure Lebanese sovereignty
By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (C) heads a cabinet session to discuss an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on September 5, 2025 (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
September 5, 2025, 10:58 pm
Lebanon to begin implementing Hezbollah disarmament plan, but details remain secret
Minister says cabinet approved army-led plan to disarm terror group ‘in accordance with available capabilities, which are limited in terms of logistics, material, human resources’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah flags and chant slogans during a gathering outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 25, 2025, to honor the Islamic Republic of Iran for what organizers described as "breaking American and Israeli aggression." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
August 7, 2025, 8:50 pm
Hezbollah ministers walk out of cabinet meeting as Beirut approves US disarmament plan
Proposal lays out four phases that would lead to terror group’s missiles and drones being dismantled by the end of the year and a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon
By Agencies, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows President Joseph Aoun (C) meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on February 8, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency/AFP)
February 8, 2025, 8:58 pm
Lebanon forms first government since 2022; Hezbollah won’t have ‘blocking third’ veto
Iran-backed terror group will have reduced sway though its ally will choose 4 cabinet ministers; US welcomes announcement after saying Hezbollah’s involvement would be a ‘red line’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video apparently showing interceptor missiles fired by Israel to shoot down incoming rockets from Lebanon aimed at the norther border town of Kiryat Shmona, September 8, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 8, 2024, 11:13 am
IDF says over 50 rockets fired at north overnight; some damage, no injuries
Missiles slam into Kiryat Shmona, hitting building and sidewalk; Hezbollah claims responsibility, says barrage revenge for Israeli strike the previous day that killed three
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Israelis swim at Gan HaShlosha National Park (also known as Sachne) in northern Israel, September 9, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 10, 2023, 11:30 am
Fear and frustration run deep around sex-segregated swimming plan at natural springs
An attempt to accommodate summertime Haredi visits to nature reserves is adding heat to the raging fight over Israel’s character
By Canaan Lidor
This image provided by the UAE Space Agency shows the planet Mars and its moon, Deimos, in the foreground. The United Arab Emirates’ Amal spacecraft - Arabic for Hope - flew within 62 miles of Deimos in March 2023. (UAE Space Agency via AP)
April 24, 2023, 11:55 pm
UAE spacecraft snaps close-up of Mars’ little moon
Emirati space agency releases pictures taken by Amal probe from within 62 miles of Deimos last month, the closest a craft has been to the tiny satellite in over 45 years
By Marcia Dunn
Election officials count ballots shortly after polling stations closed, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
May 16, 2022, 10:03 am
Hezbollah and allies dealt a blow in Lebanon election, early results show
Christian Lebanese Forces party, among Iranian proxy’s most vocal critics, says it won at least 20 seats, making it largest Christian bloc in parliament
By AP
Eliyah Hawila, born to a Shiite Muslim family in Lebanon, posed as an Orthodox Jew to marry an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn woman, seen here on his wedding day. (Screen capture/ Kan)
April 25, 2022, 5:53 pm
Lebanese Muslim who posed as Orthodox Jew arrives in Israel to convert
After losing his wife over deception, Eliyah Hawila says he is determined to do things right this time
By ToI Staff
Hezbollah fighters hold their group's flag as they stand in front of a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and swear their oath of allegiance to him, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of his assassination, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 15, 2022, 11:56 pm
Hezbollah says ready to return to Lebanon cabinet meetings, after 3-month boycott
Terror group and allied Amal movement say they will participate in budget votes despite tensions over investigation into 2020 Beirut port explosion
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An employee looks through an office window riddled with bullet holes after the deadly clashes that erupted a week earlier along a former 1975-90 civil war front-line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas, in Ain el-Rumaneh neighborhood, Beirut, Lebanon, October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 20, 2021, 6:00 pm
Beirut clashes fire up sectarian anger along 1975-90 civil war lines
Memories of the years-long conflict and sectarian passions triggered by last week’s deadly scenes of gunmen in streets and schoolchildren ducking under desks
By Sarah El Deeb
Supporters of the Shi'ite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during yesterday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Friday, October 15, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 16, 2021, 4:23 pm
Beirut street battles may spell even darker times
This week’s violence highlights willingness by members of Lebanon’s ruling class to fight for political survival at any cost
By Zeina Karam
Shiite fighters from Hezbollah and Amal terror movements take aim with (L to R) a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher amidst clashes in the area of Tayouneh, in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut, on October 14, 2021 (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
October 16, 2021, 7:54 am
A who’s who of the groups involved in Beirut violence that left 7 dead
Deadly street battles after rally demanding removal of judge from port blast probe involved several of the same players as the 1975-1990 civil war, including Hezbollah terror group
By AFP
Supporters of the Shiite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
October 15, 2021, 8:34 pm
Lebanon on edge as funerals held for seven killed in Beirut gunbattle
Hezbollah, which had 2 fighters among the dead, accuses Christian group of trying to ‘start a civil war’; terror group says ‘cannot allow the blood of our (martyrs) to go to waste’
By Rouba El Husseini
Illustration provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre depicts the United Arab Emirates' Hope Mars probe, June 1, 2020. (Alexander McNabb/MBRSC via AP)
February 9, 2021, 2:57 pm
UAE on edge as ‘Hope’ space probe to make tricky maneuver into Mars orbit
Emiratis hope successful mission to map Red Planet’s weather will be an inspiration for country’s youth, drive development of science and technology
By Dana Moukhallati
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