November 24, 2021 8:12 pm
The Base would become only the second far-right group to be designated a terrorist organisation in Australia after the British-based Sonnenkrieg Division.
August 13, 2021 1:26 pm
Lebanon is experiencing its worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history, which the World Bank describes as among the worst the world has witnessed since the mid 1800s.
August 08, 2021 8:51 am
Israel and Hezbollah are archenemies and have fought several wars in the past, the last of which ended in August 2006. The 34-day conflict ended with a draw that left 1,200 dead in Lebanon.
February 04, 2021 8:00 pm
Lokman Slim was a well known critic of Lebanon's Shia militia, Hezbollah. His murder follows years of targeted harassment by the group's supporters.
September 22, 2020 8:43 pm
Since the Beirut blast on Aug. 4, subsequent fires at the port and elsewhere in the capital have caused panic in Beirut and the country, whose economy is in meltdown.
August 30, 2020 4:41 pm
The blast was in fact at the port of Beirut, caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate stored there for years. So far, it appears to be a result of longtime government mismanagement.
June 30, 2020 9:08 am
The arrests, based on a judicial order, marked the strongest action to date by the new government in Baghdad against the perpetrators affiliated with a powerful Iran-backed militia group.
January 04, 2020 7:33 am
Until his death, Soleimani commanded the Quds Force, which is the Arabic word for Jerusalem, and is responsible for carrying out unconventional warfare and intelligence activities. The force is responsible for training, financing and providing to some extremist groups overseas.
September 10, 2019 7:57 am
So far, Hezbollah has been allowed to do political work in Germany. The government is following the EU line on this, which differentiates between Hezbollah's military and political activities.
August 30, 2019 12:21 pm
In one 18-hour period over the weekend, an Israeli airstrike killed two Iranian-trained militants in Syria, a drone set off a blast near a Hezbollah office in Beirut’s southern suburbs and an airstrike in al-Qaim, Iraq, killed a commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia.