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A member of the Syrian security forces searches a defunct drug factory inside an abandoned building near the village of Hawik in the countryside of Qusair, Syria on February 12, 2025. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
February 14, 2025, 4:42 pm
Remnants of Hezbollah drug ops found in abandoned factories in Syria
Large bags of captagon pills found in village of Qusair, where residents return after more than a decade of civil war
By AFP and ToI Staff
A truck in flames following an alleged Israeli airstrike near the Syrian town of Qusayr, February 25, 2024. (X screengrab: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 25, 2024, 11:56 am
Two Hezbollah members killed as Israel allegedly strikes Syria-Lebanon border
Several rockets fired at northern Israel after attack on truck near in Qusayr south of Homs, thought to be a Hezbollah stronghold
By Emanuel Fabian
The al-Qusayr military air base in western Syria. (Google Earth)
May 29, 2018, 2:32 pm
Hezbollah men, including commander, said killed in Syria strike blamed on Israel
Attack reportedly wrecks operational coordination center near Al-Qusayr, close to where munitions depot belonging to group was destroyed in a raid on Thursday
By ToI Staff
File: In this May 22, 2010 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher while explaining various tactics and weapons used against Israeli soldiers on the battlefield (AP/Hussein Malla)
April 6, 2016, 6:23 pm
Hezbollah said building missile base in Syria, to strike at Israel
Satellite images show villages razed in area; reports suggest fortified site may house armed Iranian missiles for use against Jewish state
By Stuart Winer
Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon shout slogans and carry a big portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as they walk towards to the Syrian Embassy to ballot their vote for their presidential elections, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
May 31, 2014, 2:36 am
As Lebanon and Syria become one
Hezbollah’s central role keeping Assad in power has so blurred the borders that it’s hard to think of Lebanon as an independent entity anymore
By Avi Issacharoff
IDF soldiers carry a comrade injured in a blast on the Golan Heights to a waiting helicopter on March 18, 2014 (photo credit:AFP/Jalaa Marey)
March 18, 2014, 11:48 pm
Hezbollah a likely culprit in cross-border attack
Shiite group has an appetite for revenge, and may be allocating more resources to strike at Israeli targets
By Avi Issacharoff
Ibrahim, 18, a Syrian rebel who lost one of his eyes during a battle against government forces and Hezbollah fighters in Rima village near Yabroud, lies on his bed as his aunt helps him to put hat on his head, at a makeshift hospital in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arsal, eastern Lebanon on Wdnesday, March 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
March 7, 2014, 2:36 am
Syria-Lebanon frontier blurs as battle for key city rages
Hezbollah, Sunni fighters flow into Yabroud, Syria, while rebels make nearby Lebanese town a strategic base
By Barbara Surk
Syrians inspect the rubble of buildings damaged buildings by government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, on Saturday, May 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Qusair Lens)
January 2, 2014, 9:37 pm
Syrian troops said to eliminate ‘infiltrators’ from Lebanon
Heavy clashes and air-strikes reported near Syrian town of Qusair
By AP
Syrian President Bashar Assad (photo credit: AP/SANA)
October 29, 2013, 3:48 pm
Assad, fighter of terror
After all else has failed, the Syrian president is successfully marketing himself as an ally of the West in its war against extremism
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, speaks, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, listens during the International Conference on National and Islamic Unification of Palestine Future in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 (Vahid Salemi/AP)
October 16, 2013, 4:33 pm
Iran slashed Hamas funding, senior official admits
Hezbollah was more understanding than its Iranian patron of Hamas’s decision to abandon Damascus, says Moussa Abu Marzouk
By Elhanan Miller
Hezbollah fighters in military uniform carry the coffin of one of their own, Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the town of Qusair, Syria, in May, 2013 (photo credit: AP)
October 4, 2013, 5:38 pm
Hezbollah said to be pulling its forces from Syria
Shiite terror group denies reported withdrawal, amid rising pressure from the Lebanese government and Arab world
By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff
US fighter jets flying in formation. (photo credit: Seaman Andrew Skipworth/US Navy, Department of Defense)
August 28, 2013, 3:07 am
‘A pity they both can’t lose’
Five insights on how US action in Syria might play out, and how Israel might want it to; and one battle-proven suggestion for an ultimatum to Assad
By Mitch Ginsburg
A Lebanese soldier passes in front of burned cars at the site of a car bombing in southern Beirut, on August 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla/File)
August 20, 2013, 11:34 pm
Attacks in Hezbollah area test supporters’ resolve
Shiite operatives man checkpoints guarding southern Beirut suburbs for fear of future bombings by Sunni extremists
By Zeina Karam and Bassam Mroue
An explosion in the central Syrian city of Homs, August 1, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screen cap, Baynetna News)
August 1, 2013, 6:00 pm
Explosions rock regime districts in Syrian city
Blasts in central Homs may have been caused by a rocket that struck an army weapons depot
By Albert Aji and Bassam Mroue
The Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque in the heavily disputed northern neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, in Homs, Syria, on Saturday, July 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)
July 29, 2013, 10:19 pm
Syrian forces capture another key district in Homs
Capture of Khaldiyeh brings Assad closer to seizing all of key region; opposition claims Hezbollah fighters participating
By Albert Aji and Bassam Mroue
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