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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Lebanese Shi'ites

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
This image made from video released by the UN observer mission in Syria and accessed in June 2012 purports to show destroyed buses after fighting in Damascus, Syria. (photo credit: UNSMIS via AP video)
February 1, 2015, 4:36 pm
Bus blast kills pilgrims in Damascus
Conflicting reports indicate multiple Lebanese Shiite worshipers dead after explosion rocks Syrian capital
By AFP
Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, attends a meeting of Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 17, 2013. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, File)
February 1, 2015, 9:14 am
Powerful Iran general met with Hezbollah chief after Golan strike
Lebanese media report Qassem Soleimani paid condolence visit to graves of Hezbollah fighters killed in attack before sit down with Nasrallah
By ToI Staff
Talal Ahmad Roda and two other men accused of being Hezbollah operatives sit in a Nigerian courtroom in 2013. (screen capture: YouTube/JewishNewsOne)
January 30, 2015, 8:41 pm
Nigeria’s top court orders release of Hezbollah suspect
Court overturns sentence of Lebanese national accused of importing weapons, plotting to attack Israeli targets
By AFP
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