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Al-Manar television crew came under gunfire Monday during its coverage of the Syrian army’s recapture of the Christian town of Maalula from the terrorist hands, which resulted in the martyrdom of the reporter Hamza al-Hajj Hassan along with a cameraman and a technician. Al-Manar said 27-year-old Hajj Hassan and his …

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that the Syrian regime is no longer in danger of being toppled by rebels, adding that the world wants to see a diplomatic solution to the country’s ongoing crisis. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said that rebels taking over the country is no longer an option, …

Omar Bakri Mohammad is on the run in Lebanon, officials say, after his house was raided as part of an operation to end the sectarian violence in Tripoli. The Sunni cleric is among 200 individuals wanted in connection with their alleged role in clashes that have left 30 people dead …

The Lebanese army fortified its posts and deployed heavily Friday in various areas in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, mainly in Syria Street that separates the rival districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, the state-run National News Agency reported. On Thursday, a child was killed and several people …

The twin suicide bombings yesterday in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, were rightfully described as “an attack on the Islamic orphanage.” In fact, the two blasts shook the neighborhood surrounding al-Majad Center, part of the Social Welfare Institutions, where about 100 children were playing outside and 150 others were attending …

Updated at 3:40 pm: The Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for a twin suicide car bomb attack near an Iranian cultural center in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Wednesday morning. The Lebanese National News Agency reported that the 9:20 am explosion appeared to have been caused by …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement and the country’s security forces have arrested members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in southern Beirut. The militants belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had infiltrated into the southern suburb of Dahiya under the guise of a business company. Reports …

Lebanon’s military tribunal has issued an arrest warrant for the commander of the al-Qaeda-linked group behind the November bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. The warrant was issued for Jamal Daftar-Dar, the commander of Abdullah Azzam Brigades. On November 19, two bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in …

Three al-Qaeda-affiliated militant groups have declared war on Lebanon. In a single day, the trio delivered the opening salvo of their Lebanese campaign, issuing threats in what appeared to be coordinated statements. Three prominent terrorist groups, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, and the Islamic State of Iraq …

Deputy general-secretary of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has raised alarms about the threat of “Takfiri terrorism” and its potential spread across the globe. “This peril [of Takfiri terrorism] does not only threaten Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, rather it threatens the entire world,” Sheikh Naim Qassem emphasized during a ceremony …