Lebanon’s NOW media outlet on Friday published a series of interviews and updates from the besieged Lebanese town of Tfail, which has been targeted by what NOW described as a “campaign of aerial bombardment against… civilians” by Hezbollah-backed forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime: “For the past two nights,...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed angry remarks from Iranian officials in reaction to last week’s publication of the State Department’s annual country-by-country terrorism roundup: “Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is politicized and based on double standards,” ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said in a statement reported by the official IRNA...

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Lebanese lawmakers are theoretically meant to elect a new president with a second round of voting on April 30, but the two key blocs led by Hezbollah and the pro-Western MP Saad Hariri cannot agree on a consensus candidate. Under Lebanon’s complex, confessional-based political system, in which top political posts are...

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The Washington Examiner on Friday outlined a scenario under which the next war in the Middle East may break out as a result of what the outlet described as competing “Israeli and Lebanese claims over a potentially lucrative plot of [underwater] territory,” with the recently formed Lebanese government set to...

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The Lebanese government on Tuesday reported progress in providing relief to residents of the besieged border town of Tfail, a remote Lebanese outpost functionally accessible only via Syrian roads, has been subject to isolation and bombardment by Hezbollah-backed forces fighting on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime. The Iran-directed terror...

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Lebanon’s Daily Star reported early Friday morning that the Syrian army had launched what the outlet described as “a series of artillery strikes” on the Lebanese town of Tfail, sending Lebanese residents and Syrian refugees who have taken shelter in the town “flee[ing] into the surrounding hills”: “Syrians from all villages surrounding Tfail have fled...

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Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, has announced his candidacy for president of that strife-torn country. According to a newspaper report, he wants to treat all Lebanese equally and wants to strengthen the state but “not weaken Hezbollah.” The website Ya Libnan reports: Addressing his presidential program, the...

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The terrorist who in July 2012 blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas was an Algerian who trained in southern Lebanese camps, according to security sources quoted by the Bulgarian daily Presa and conveyed on Monday by Lebanon’s Daily Star. “The assailant was born in...

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Lebanon’s Daily Star on Friday reported that religious and political figures from the Lebanese city of Sidon have been traveling to Hezbollah’s offices in Beirut to try to convince Hezbollah leaders to reverse their recent decision to reactivate and boost the activities of the organization’s Resistance Brigades inside Sidon: The decision risks...

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The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has begun taking over Hezbollah checkpoints in the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon, close to the border with Syria. This move offers considerable advantages to Hezbollah, which gets the benefits of containment of blowback from Syria in the former of Sunni rebel fighters crossing over...

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