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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander, Qassam Soleimani, in an Iranian TV interview, October 1, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

October 1, 2019, 9:36 pm

Iran’s Soleimani claims he and Nasrallah barely escaped Israeli air raid in 2006

IRGC’s Quds Force chief gives rare interview, seen as aiming to position himself at head of Iranian hierarchy alongside Khamenei

By TOI staff and AFP

Two crates reportedly belonging to Hezbollah containing critical technical machinery that were destroyed in a drone strike attributed to Israel in Beirut on August 25, 2019. (Twitter)

August 27, 2019, 11:36 pm

Report: Beirut strike will delay Hezbollah missile program by at least a year

Powerful planetary mixer used in creation of solid state fuel is said to have been destroyed in drone explosion; was reportedly flown in from Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Damage inside the media office of Hezbollah in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

August 27, 2019, 6:03 pm

Beirut UAV raid, blamed on Israel, said to hit Hezbollah precision missile parts

Drones targeted two components necessary to turn terror group’s simple rockets into accurate missiles, according to unsourced UK Times article

By Judah Ari Gross

A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen amid other damage inside the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

August 27, 2019, 1:46 pm

Nasrallah is lying about Israeli drones in Beirut; Lebanon must urgently wise up

Any terrorist knows Israeli drones don’t look or operate like the two in Beirut, and any child knows the result would have been very different if Israel had really wanted to attack

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 takes off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

August 26, 2019, 3:51 am

Israel said to strike base of Palestinian terror group deep inside Lebanon

Reports say bombing targeted the Hezbollah-allied PFLP – General Command in the Bekaa Valley near Syria border; no comment from IDF

By TOI staff

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaks during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

August 25, 2019, 3:25 pm

Lebanon says Israeli aggression a ‘threat to regional stability’

PM decries ‘blatant attack on Lebanon’s sovereignty’ after 2 drones go down over Beirut, with one exploding near Hezbollah media HQ; Israeli analysts believe drones were Iranian

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

A drone that crashed in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 25, 2019. (Lebanese state media)

August 25, 2019, 3:01 pm

Analysts speculate UAVs that crashed in Beirut were Iranian, not Israeli

Israeli military officially mum on origins of the quadcopter-style drones found in Lebanese capital, but experts say they seem to be Iranian models

By Judah Ari Gross

Damage to one of Hezbollah's offices in Beirut that was allegedly caused by an Israeli drone on August 25, 2019. (Lebanese state media)

August 25, 2019, 10:04 am

Hezbollah says Israeli drone blew up outside its PR headquarters in Beirut

Spokesman for Lebanese terror group says it captured a second UAV that crashed in Dahiyeh neighborhood

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, August 25, 2019. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

August 25, 2019, 4:03 am

Hezbollah says Israeli drones go down in Beirut stronghold

Explosions heard in Dahiyeh neighborhood hours after Israel strikes Iranian drone plot in Syria

By Agencies and TOI staff

Hezbollah MP Walid Sukkarieh speaks on group's al-Manar TV station on June 18, 2016 (Screenshot/MEMRI)

June 23, 2016, 10:02 pm

Hezbollah MP urges kidnapping Israeli civilians in next war

Walid Sukkarieh says seizing northern communities would block Israeli use of disproportionate force, create new balance of power

By TOI staff

Palestinians gather around the rubble of a building on Saturday July 26, where at least 20 members of the Al Najar extended family were reported killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (photo credit:AP/Eyad Baba)

July 27, 2014, 3:15 pm

The earthquake in Gaza

The destruction in the Strip is striking, but will it achieve deterrence or a thirst for revenge?

By Avi Issacharoff

A Hamas tunnel discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

July 25, 2014, 11:06 am

Gaza Underground, the threat Israel chose to ignore

Hamas’s attack tunnels are now recognized as a major danger, but Israel would have to reconquer Gaza to make sure they aren’t rebuilt, and that would cause untenable losses

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative photo of a tunnel opening discovered by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, July 20, 2014. (photo credit: IDF)

July 22, 2014, 12:48 am

Israel’s cerebral war in Gaza, and its risks

Israel has proceeded logically, each escalation equipped with an exit ramp. But Hamas, pleased with its bloody accomplishments, may be in no mood to stop

By Mitch Ginsburg

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (AP/Hussein Malla)

July 17, 2014, 7:06 pm

Hezbollah chief hospitalized for ‘delicate’ surgery

Shiite fighters surround Beirut hospital to protect Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah from potential threats

By Adiv Sterman

Lebanese firefighters extinguish burned cars at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran's cultural center, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

February 20, 2014, 1:07 pm

Hezbollah flinches in the face of its Sunni counterpart

Suffering suicide bombings and rocket attacks by al-Qaeda linked group, the Shiite militia is targeted with its own tactics

By Avi Issacharoff