The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have conducted a joint live-fire exercise in southern Lebanon. The drills, code-named “Neptune Thunder,” were conducted on Wednesday in an area about one kilometer south of UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura. The Field Artillery Group, part of UNIFIL’s Quick Reaction Force, and [...]

The head of Lebanon’s Progressive Socialist Party has met with the Iranian ambassador to Beirut to discuss the prospect of enhancing ties between the two countries. Walid Jumblatt held talks with Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Rokn-Abadi, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. Following the meeting, the Druze leader said the move aimed to [...]

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and leader of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects Sheikh Hussam Qaraqira stressed in a meeting that last Tuesday individual clashes in Burj Abi Haidar “had no political background and were not sectarian.” A statement released by Hezbollah’s media office said that Sayyed Nasrallah and Al-Ahbash leader agreed to [...]

The Syrian army and Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah would fully cooperate, should Israel launch a military aggression in the region, a report says. The two sides have formed a joint headquarters in order to orchestrate the coordination between the two military forces, unnamed sources told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai. The report came after Syrian [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on regional countries to remain vigilant and put up a stiff resistance against enemies. “The great awareness which has emerged in the resistance front of regional nations from Lebanon to Iran will defeat all enemies,” Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with senior officials of Lebanon’s Amal Movement in the [...]

Hezbollah has criticized Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri’s handling of last week’s street fight in Beirut, saying he behaved like a party leader rather than a statesman. Three people were killed when the deadly clash broke out on Tuesday night between the supporters of Hezbollah and the al-Ahbash faction in the capital’s Bourj Abu Haidar neighborhood. [...]

Israeli military jets have been observed patrolling the skies above southern parts of Lebanon in a flagrant violation of UN Security Council resolutions, the Lebanese army says. The Lebanese military issued a statement through the National News Agency, saying that it observed an Israeli reconnaissance plane flying over southern Lebanon for about 17 hours. “At [...]

Today is the 32nd anniversary of the abduction of Imam Musa Sadr. Imam Musa Sadr (born in 1929) was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and prominent Alim who disappeared in August 1978. He was born in Qom, Iran in 1929 to the prominent Lebanese Sadr family of theologians. His father was Ayatollah Ṣadr al-Din Sadr, originally from [...]

On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the abduction of Imam Mousa al-Sadr, Haj Khalil Hamdan, Deputy of Amal Movement, Lebanese Youth and Sports Minister Ali Abdullah and a number of Lebanese officials on Sunday met with IRI Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. In the meeting Mottaki pointed to the victory of Lebanese resistance during [...]

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has expressed the Islamic Republic’s readiness to supply Lebanon with military equipment. “Lebanon and its army are our friends and the country needs military equipment to defend its borders against Israel,” General Vahidi told Press TV on Sunday on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of the production [...]

The Iranian ambassador to Beirut says the Islamic Republic is ready to help Lebanon overcome its electricity shortage and to cooperate in its oil exploration and drilling projects. Lebanon has not had success in generating electricity over the past 15 years, but if Lebanese officials ask for help, Iran is ready to help them solve [...]

A senior US official has downplayed the Lebanese military prowess, claiming that the Israeli regime is capable of destroying the army within hours. Frederick Hoff, a senior advisor to the United States Middle East envoy George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that the Israeli army is ready to destroy the Lebanese [...]

The Zionist regime murdered the Lebanese deceased Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, al-Khaleej newspaper wrote in an article on Friday. The paper said it was clear that a foreign agent assassinated martyr Rafiq Hariri. It targeted stability and unity among people in Lebanon. The writer wrote that Lebanon has earned its stability after the civil wars [...]

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says US efforts to rally international pressure against Iran are aimed at maintaining the interests of the Israeli regime. “The mounting US and Western pressure on Iran is not solely over [the country's] peaceful nuclear activities,” IRNA quoted Senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek as saying on Friday. “The main reason [...]

An Israeli reconnaissance plane has violated Lebanon’s airspace in breach of the country’s sovereignty, according to the Lebanese army. The army said in a statement on Thursday that the aircraft entered the Lebanese airspace over the southern border town of Naqoura, a Press TV correspondent reported. The plane then flew over eastern Lebanon and the [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to discuss the equipping and modernization of the Lebanese army by Iran during an upcoming visit to Beirut. Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi said that the issue will be brought up during President Ahmadinejad’s upcoming visit to Lebanon, which comes at the invitation of his Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleiman. [...]

Lebanon’s President Michel Sleiman has called on security forces to arrest those who ignited deadly clashes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The order was issued following street fighting between supporters of Hezbollah and al-Ahbash faction in Burj Abu Haidar neighborhood on Tuesday. Four people were killed and many others wounded in the heavy gunfire exchange [...]

Secretary-General of Hezbollah Seyed Hassan Nasrallah welcomed the Lebanese government’s decision to ask for Tehran’s cooperation in equipping the country’s Army. Nasrallah urged the Lebanese Cabinet on Tuesday to ask Iran and Arab states to provide equipment for Lebanon’s army, stressing that “Hezbollah will work hard through his friendship with Iran to equip the Lebanese [...]

A statement released by the Lebanese army says an Israeli reconnaissance plane has flown the country for hours before returning to its base in Israel. The spy aircraft reportedly entered Lebanese airspace on Sunday at around 7:00 a.m. local time, a Press TV correspondent quoted the statement as saying. The army said that the Israeli [...]

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is spending $500 million to implicate Hezbollah in the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, a report says. Hezbollah has new evidence about the murder of Hariri that, if revealed, would be damaging to Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s royal family, the official website of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement party said on [...]