Thick plumes of black smoke are seen following Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon...

Amal Khalil, former journalist with Lebanon`s al-Akhbar daily Lebanese Civil Defense has confirmed the death of Amal Khalil, a journalist with the country`s al-Akhbar daily, saying she was deliberately targeted in an Israeli strike in the southern town of at-Tiri, where her body was later recovered from the rubble...

The file photo shows Israeli strikes on Lebanon...

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire following an Israeli strike at the Corniche al-Mazraa neighbourhood of Beirut on April 8, 2026...

Picture taken during the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)`s ongoing Operation True Promise 4 against hostile targets, which began on February 28, 2026 The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has carried out the 40th wave of its ongoing retaliatory Operation True Promise 4, launching decisive strikes against hostile targets throughout the region...

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in Beirut`s southern suburbs on March 10, 2026...

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon (File photo) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence that the Israeli regime deployed "white phosphorus" in civilian neighborhoods of southern Lebanon earlier this month, breaching international humanitarian law...

The Hezbollah resistance group on Sunday bombed Israeli targets across Kiryat Shmona and inflicted heavy losses on the occupied forces...

embed1 Fighters of Hezbollah, reportedly repelled an attempted heliborne deployment by Israeli forces in Lebanon`s Beqaa Valley...

Frame grab from a speech delivered by Hezbollah`s Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem on March 4, 2026 Hezbollah`s secretary-general says the Lebanese resistance movement`s recent military response followed more than a year of restraint, reminding how the group had warned repeatedly about the limits to its capacity for self-restraint in the face of Israeli aggression...

People collect the remains of their belongings from a building destroyed in an Israeli strike in the village of Bednayel in eastern Lebanon, on February 21, 2026...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (C) arrives to attend a cabinet session at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on September 5, 2025...

US army soldiers stand near an armored military vehicle on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria`s northeastern Hasakah province, bordering Turkey on March 27, 2023...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun sits at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon...

This picture shows the aftermath of an Israeli air strike against a vehicle in the Ansariyah area of the Sidon district, southern Lebanon, on February 2, 2026...

This picture shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike against a car on the outskirts of the town of Siddiqin in the Tyre district, southern Lebanon, on January 30, 2026...

Mahmoud Qmati, Hezbollah`s political bureau member...

Wreckage of a car targeted in an Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese village of Mazraat Al-Qnaitra, near Sidon, on December 22, 2025...

Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sheikh Naim Qassem, delivers a televised speech on December 13, 2025, on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA), the beloved daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)...

Lebanon`s Foreign Minister Youssef Raji Lebanon`s Foreign Minister Youssef Raji says his country has received warnings from Arab and international parties that the Israeli regime is preparing for "a large-scale military operation" against Lebanon...

This picture purportedly shows the aftermath of an Israeli drone strike against a car as it was traveling along a road linking Bazourieh area to Burj el-Shemali region in South Lebanon, Lebanon, on January 20, 2024...

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah, delivers a televised speech on January 14, 2024...

A senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has been assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech on January 5, 2024...

Smoke rises in an area in southern Lebanon as exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel continue...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech on the 4th anniversary of the assassination of General Qaseem Soleimani, on January 3, 2024...

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah hailed the recent attacks waged by Islamic Resistance movements in Iraq and Yemen against the US troops and the Zionist regime amid the aggression on Gaza...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a televised speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 3, 2023...

File photo of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah’s fighters The Lebanese resistance group of Hezbollah has written an open letter to resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, which has come under a brutal Israeli war, expressing certainty about the Israeli regime’s eventual defeat...

A Palestinian man walks on building rubble following Israeli strikes on the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on October 25, 2023...

An Israeli soldier walks past a tank near border between the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories and Lebanon on October 9, 2023...

A shell fired by Israel explodes over the southern Lebanese border village of Dhaira, on October 16, 2023...

Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan (file photo) A former British diplomat and human rights activist has been detained under the country’s counterterrorism laws after declaring support for the people of Palestine and criticizing Israel’s atrocities against them...

The file photo shows a Hezbollah missile. Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted an Israeli military base with guided missiles in response to the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes and aggressions...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah attacks all Israeli military outposts in occupied Shebaa farms...

This still image taken from video shows a shelling by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement on an Israeli site in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms on October 8, 2023...

A Lebanese police officer walks in Beirut, March 4, 2021...

Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri (R) greets his successor Najib Mikati in Beirut, Lebanon July 25, 2021...

The secretary-general of Hezbollah said that the US military presence in Iraq is mere occupation despite Washington’s claim of having the Iraqi approval, adding that US was forced out of Afghanistan without achieving anything...

Ismail Haniyeh (L), head of the Politburo of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, meets with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, June 29, 2021...

The secretary general of the Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaks in a televised speech on May 25, 2021...

Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivers a live speech from Beirut, Lebanon, on January 3, 2021...

Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaks in an interview broadcast by Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network on December 30, 2020...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (File photo) Russia has defended its envoy to Tel Aviv, who was summoned to the Israeli foreign ministry over an interview critical of the occupying entity, saying his remarks are perfectly in line with Moscow’s well-known position on Middle East issues...

Frame grab shows Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised speech on October 30, 2020...

Frame grab shows Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised speech on September 29, 2020...

US State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Nathan Sales (Photo by AFP) France has rejected allegations by a senior US State Department official that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in the European country, emphasizing that there is no evidence to substantiate such claims...

A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag as tear gas is fired by Israeli forces during a protest against normalizing ties with Israel, in Kafr Qaddum town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 11, 2020...

Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivers a televised speech broadcast live on the local Arabic-language al-Manar television network from the Lebanese capital Beirut, on August 20, 2020...

A drone is seen on display during the International Convention of Air Force Commanders, at the Tel Nof air force base in occupied territories, May 23, 2018...