US President Donald Trump participates in a meeting with leaders of the steel industry at the White House March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC...

Two Lebanese were killed on Friday in Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Tyre and Nabatieh districts in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon`s Health Ministry...

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

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the press during a visit to the shrine of former Hezbollah leader, Martyr Nasrallah, in Beirut`s southern suburbs on January 8, 2026...

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi disembarks from an airplane upon his arrival in Beirut, Lebanon, on January, 8, 2026...

This picture shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike against a car in Jwaya village of the Tyre district, southern Lebanon, on January 7, 2026...

This image shows an Israeli strike on the village of Kfar Hatta in southern Lebanon, January 5, 2026, (Photo by AFP) Israel has carried out a series of air attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon, continuing to violate a ceasefire that was meant to halt the Israeli aggression on the Arab country`s sovereignty...

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 file photo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and his Lebanese counterpart Youssef Raggi meeting in Beirut...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has strongly criticized US envoy Tom Barrack for making remarks in which he suggested that Lebanon could be annexed to Syria, calling the comments a "major mistake...

People inspect the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, near Sidon in southern Lebanon, that was struck by Israeli airstrike on November 19, 2025...

Rescuers search for survivors at the residential building in Beirut`s Haret Hreik neighbourhood [AFP] Hezbollah has confirmed that its top military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Lebanon`s capital...

File photo shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking during a news conference in occupied al-Quds on August 10, 2025...

People gather looking at the debris following an Israeli military strike on a residential building in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut`s southern suburbs on November 23, 2025...

Picture provided by Lebanon`s al-Mayadeen television network shows the immediate aftermath of a deadly Israeli airstrike against the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on November 18, 2025...

Former Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog (L), welcomes former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine, October 12, 2023...

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...

Qatar begin their Asian Cup title defence in style with a 3-0 win over Lebanon in front of a passionate home crowd...

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

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...

Remnants of a US-produced white phosphorous smoke round found in Dheira, Lebanon...

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...

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...

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...

US President Joe Biden (L) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi meet on the sidelines of the COP27 summit in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022...

In this file picture, Syria’s air defenses intercept and destroy a missile launched by Israeli military aircraft from the direction of Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights towards Damascus...

In this file photo taken on August 03, 2021 the Israeli-linked Japanese-owned tanker MT Mercer Street, off the port of the Gulf Emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates...

The Israeli regime takes an area in southern Lebanon under airstrikes after launching heavy artillery attack aimed again at the country’s south in response to alleged rocket attack...

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

Lebanon’s new Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati Lebanon’s new Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati has acknowledged that the formation of his cabinet is slower than expected, as the cash-strapped Arab country is desperately in need of filling a persisting political vacuum and addressing the ongoing socioeconomic crisis...

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 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...

This photo shows fire at a Syrian refugee camp in the Miniyeh region, northern Lebanon, on December 26, 2020...

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

An effigy depicting French President Emmanuel Macron is seen as Muslims chant slogans after Friday prayers during a protest calling for the boycott of French products and denouncing the French president for his defense of derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 30, 2020...

Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri Lebanese President Michel Aoun has appointed former prime minister Saad Hariri as the country’s prime minister-designate just a year after his resignation from office...

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...

Firefighters and people gather near the site of a fire that broke out in a building in central Beirut, Lebanon, on September 15, 2020...

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the Presidential palace in Baabda, east of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on September 1, 2020...