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People inspect the damage after a series of Israeli airstrikes in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar on October 17, 2025. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
October 18, 2025, 10:45 pm
IDF says strike kills Hezbollah operative acting in breach of truce in southern Lebanon
Army says it targeted man in Kfar Dounine who was attempting to ‘restore Hezbollah infrastructure’; military says troops also stopped weapons smuggling attempt from Syria to Lebanon
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
People wait at the entrance of the Al-Masnaa eastern Lebanese border crossing with Syria on January 3, 2025, after Syria imposed new restrictions on the entry of Lebanese citizens. (Hassan JARRAH / AFP)
August 17, 2025, 12:22 pm
Decades of distrust cloud complex and strained ties between Syria and Lebanon
Many Syrians resent Hezbollah for its support of Assad, while some in Lebanon blame Damascus for Rafik Hariri’s assassination and are angry Lebanese defector became Syrian security official
By AP
Pills of captagon are pictured after their burning to be disposed of upon their discovery at Mazzeh Military Airport in the west of Damascus on December 12, 2024. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
June 28, 2025, 4:19 pm
Syrian forces seize 3 million captagon pills in operation near Lebanese border
Damascus says forces set up a roadside ambush that ‘led to clashes between the security forces and members of the cell’; drug was key source of income for ousted Assad regime
By AFP
A cargo ship is docked at the port of Beirut on October 21, 2024. (Joseph EID / AFP)
April 8, 2025, 5:14 pm
Hezbollah using maritime smuggling route for weapons, funds from Iran – report
Saudi site says terror group has been asserting control over Beirut port, using it as main smuggling artery amid crackdowns by Lebanon, Syria and Israel
By ToI Staff
A Syria rebel fighter rips a portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a building reportedly used by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group, in the town of in Qusayr in Syria's central Homs province, on December 15, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
March 17, 2025, 1:47 am
3 Syrian troops killed in Lebanon; Damascus accuses Hezbollah of seizing, killing them
Terror group denies involvement, and Lebanese source claims the soldiers crossed the border and were shot by local gunmen in village of Qasr; Syria said to fire missiles at town
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A picture taken from Lebanon shows Syrian officials inspecting the damage on the Syrian side of the Dabussiyeh border crossing after an Israeli airstrike on November 27, 2024. (Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)
November 30, 2024, 2:14 pm
IDF hits Hezbollah military facility in Syria, strikes ‘ceasefire violations’ in Lebanon
Army says Hezbollah continues to try bring weapons into Lebanon via civilian border crossings, vows to punish any truce violations; drone said to fire at car heading toward troops
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Israeli forces digging along the Alpha Line separating the Golan Heights from a demilitarized zone in Syria patrolled by United Nations forces on November 5, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
November 11, 2024, 10:13 pm
IDF building along UN-patrolled demilitarized zone in Syria, satellite images show
Photos show trenches and fortifications being constructed along Syrian side of Golan Heights border; UN confirms Israeli encroachment ‘into the area of separation’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
IDF reservists killed during fighting in southern Lebanon on October 25, 2024: (L-R) top: Maj. (res.) Dan Maori, 43; Warrant Officer (res.) Omri Lotan, 47; bottom: Warrant Officer (res.) Guy Idan, 51; Cpt. (res.) Alon Safrai, 28; and Master Sgt. (res.) Tom Segal, 28.
October 25, 2024, 12:59 pm
Five IDF reservists killed in rocket attack on troops in southern Lebanon; 19 injured
IDF says Hezbollah elite force regional commander killed in recent strike, tunnels demolished in south Lebanon; 3 journalists from pro-Hezbollah news outlets killed overnight
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
A screenshot of unverified video on social media showing the aftermath of a reported Israeli strike in Syria's Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, near the border with Lebanon, late August 2, 2024. (Screenshot X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 3, 2024, 4:46 am
Israel said to strike known Hezbollah smuggling area along Syria-Lebanon border
Source close to Lebanese terror group tells AFP that 3 Israeli strikes targeted convoy of tanker trucks, injuring a Syrian driver
By AFP and Emanuel Fabian
A picture taken on an army-organized press tour shows Lebanese army soldiers with the 6th Brigade standing on tanks flying the Lebanese flag in an area they recently took from the Islamic State (IS) group on the Syrian-Lebanese border, August 28, 2017. (AFP/PATRICK BAZ)
August 30, 2017, 4:01 pm
US official blasts deal that moved Islamic State fighters from Lebanon border
Lebanese army buses hundreds of jihadists out of combat zone in return for info on missing soldiers
By AP
Soldiers holding a position in a mountainous area near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek during an operation against jihadist fighters, on August 17, 2017, in a photograph taken during a tour guided by the Lebanese army. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
August 19, 2017, 8:11 am
Lebanon army announces offensive against IS on Syria border
Jihadists have been operating on country’s eastern frontier for several years
By AFP
A Lebanese army soldier takes up a position overlooking an area controlled by the Islamic State group at the edge of the town of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon, June 19, 2016. (AP/Hussein Malla)
August 8, 2017, 11:09 am
Lebanon’s army prepares to clear Syrian border area of Islamic State
Attack to be coordinated with Assad’s forces which, together with Hezbollah, will assault the same area from the other side of the boundary
By Bassam Mroue
Lebanese Civil Defense workers putting out a fire in a Syrian refugee camp in Qab Elias, a village in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Sunday, July 2, 2017. (Qab Elias Emergency Services via AP)
July 2, 2017, 8:18 pm
Fire rages in Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon, 1 dead
700 displaced by blaze said to have been sparked by electrical overload in makeshift tent camp
By Sarah El Deeb
An Israeli F-16 during an exercise on November 25, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
August 25, 2016, 12:04 am
Israeli warplanes said to hit Hezbollah targets in Syria
Arab media reports airstrikes target military posts of Shiite terror group along near Lebanese border; Hezbollah denies, Israel mum
By ToI Staff
Lebanese security forces secure the site of multiple suicide bombings which took place early on June 27, 2016 in the predominantly Christian village of Al-Qaa, in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria. (AFP/ STRINGER)
July 3, 2016, 12:53 am
Hezbollah says it killed IS commander in Lebanon
Jihadist commander for attack-stricken Qaa region near Syria border died in rocket attack, group reports
By AP
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