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A family who fled following Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sits inside the van they are using as shelter in Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
April 3, 2026, 6:19 pm
In Lebanon, displaced Shiites feared over potential Hezbollah ties amid IDF strikes
As a million people flee their homes, locals elsewhere refuse to rent to Shiites amid concerns undisclosed links to terror group could put their buildings in crosshairs of Israel
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah wave flags and hold pictures of their slain leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a rally outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut's southern suburbs, to celebrate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, on June 25, 2025. (Haitham Moussawi/AFP)
July 4, 2025, 3:06 pm
Hezbollah said to be considering partial disarmament after devastating Israeli blows
Terror group said to perceive huge arsenal meant to deter and attack Israel as possible liability; its finances damaged by regional change, Israeli assassinations
By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily
People drive on a street past portraits of slain Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and buildings damaged in Israeli strikes in the recent war, amid the first round of municipal elections, in the Ghobeiry neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburb on May 4, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
May 23, 2025, 10:20 pm
Hezbollah seeks boost in Lebanon vote as disarmament calls grow
Though the terror group was badly weakened by the war with Israel, popular support among Lebanese Shi’ites remains strong
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Lebanese men walk with a dog past tents where displaced people have been sleeping on Beirut's seaside promenade of Ain al-Mreisseh, on October 7, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
October 8, 2024, 6:45 pm
Fleeing Hezbollah stronghold, Beirut’s displaced met with suspicion and paranoia
Many worry that operatives escaping war could draw Israeli airstrikes to their neighborhoods, fear repeat of civil war phenomenon of displaced seizing homes
By AFP 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
In this file photo from October 31, 2016, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri addresses a parliamentary session in the capital Beirut. (AFP Photo/Pool/Joseph Eid)
May 23, 2018, 2:49 pm
New Lebanon parliament re-elects Hezbollah ally as speaker
Nabih Berri of the Amal Movement, allied with the Shiite terror group, has served in the position since 1992
By AFP
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2018. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitc/Flash90)
May 10, 2018, 12:11 pm
Liberman says Lebanon now under ‘complete control’ of Hezbollah
Defense minister warns that terror group’s electoral success creates ‘new reality’ on Israel’s northern border
By Raoul Wootliff
A Hezbollah armored vehicle sits at the site where clashes erupted between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Wadi al-Kheil or al-Kheil Valley in the Lebanon-Syria border, July 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
May 8, 2018, 7:02 pm
Hezbollah arsenal to go unchallenged after Lebanon vote — analysts
Terror group’s electoral success said to guarantee its bloc an effective veto power over important decisions, meaning no action will be taken against its arms
By AFP and ToI Staff
Michel Aoun speaks to journalists on October 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 31, 2016, 11:31 am
Lebanon parliament set to elect Hezbollah ally as president
After dramatic shift of alliances, Michel Aoun expected to win two-thirds majority vote in legislature, ending 2-year political stalemate
By AFP
Lebanese army soldiers from the special forces unit patrol Qaa, a predominantly Lebanese Christian village near the Syrian border where suicide bombers blew themselves up among civilians the day before, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP)
July 1, 2016, 12:33 am
Hezbollah scraps al-Quds Day event amid security fears
Lebanon on high alert since nine bombs exploded Monday in eastern border village of Qaa, killing five
By AP
A Syrian watches an interview of Hassan Nasrallah screened on Syria's official television channel Al-Ikhbariya on April 6, 2015 in Damascus. (AFP/STR)
April 27, 2015, 2:51 pm
New attacks show blurring of Lebanese, Syrian fronts
Hezbollah, now ruling Lebanon, doesn’t want large-scale conflict with Israel, but does want to deter IDF from ‘crossing red lines’
By Avi Issacharoff
Marie Mansourati, 83, adjusts pictures of her kidnapped son Dani, more than two decades after he was taken by Syrian troops to Damascus, at her house in Beirut on April 8, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ Joseph Eid)
April 11, 2015, 9:49 pm
Lebanon civil war still haunts families of disappeared
Decades after end of conflict, relatives of the 17,000 missing from 15 years of civil war unable to mourn
By Rana Moussaoui
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri, February 14, 2013 (screen capture: Youtube/mtvlebanon)
February 14, 2015, 3:13 pm
Former premier in Lebanon to mark father’s killing
Saad Hariri returns from self-imposed exile on 10-year anniversary of assassination that shook the nation
By AP
A Lebanese man walks by a giant poster of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, that was put up near his grave, in preparation to mark the 10th anniversary of his assassination, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 12, 2015, 10:50 am
Justice elusive 10 years after killing of Lebanon’s Hariri
Recent turmoil and spillover from neighboring Syria’s civil war overshadows investigation of former PM’s death
By Mike Corder and Bassam Mroue
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