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# hezbollah - Last year 2021

Six killed and dozens injured following clashes in Beirut

# Lebanon

Six killed and dozens injured following clashes in Beirut

Oct 14th 2021, 7:14 PM 7,718 Views 1 Comment

Gunfire broke out at a protest against the judge investigating last year’s blast at the city’s port.

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Tribunal finds Hezbollah member guilty of ex-prime minister's murder in 2005

# Lebanon

Tribunal finds Hezbollah member guilty of ex-prime minister's murder in 2005

Aug 18th 2020, 3:49 PM 12,792 Views 5 Comments

One of four men were found guilty today.

Verdict due over assassination of former Lebanese prime minister amid fears of more violence

# Hezbollah

Verdict due over assassination of former Lebanese prime minister amid fears of more violence

Aug 18th 2020, 8:40 AM 10,288 Views 2 Comments

The tribunal’s long-awaited decision comes two weeks after a cataclysmic blast at Beirut port.

Concerns grow as tensions rise between Israel and Hezbollah

# Lebanon

Concerns grow as tensions rise between Israel and Hezbollah

Sep 2nd 2019, 8:31 AM 13,039 Views 48 Comments

Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire along the Lebanese border.

Hezbollah top commander killed in Syria by "Islamist extremists"

# Attack

Hezbollah top commander killed in Syria by "Islamist extremists"

May 14th 2016, 1:05 PM 13,916 Views 131 Comments

Mustafa Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in a blast on Thursday night.

Opinion: The lives of our peacekeeping troops are being recklessly risked at the Syrian border

# Spectrum Of Violence

Opinion: The lives of our peacekeeping troops are being recklessly risked at the Syrian border

Aug 30th 2014, 8:00 AM 423 Views 53 Comments

The situation at the border is far too volatile for the UN mission’s remit – it seems the only reason to keep it there is for political posturing.

This is how you make it onto the EU's terror blacklist

# Terrorism

This is how you make it onto the EU's terror blacklist

Jul 28th 2013, 9:15 AM 9,841 Views 72 Comments

Earlier this week the EU decided to add Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’ to its list of terror organisations.

Gilmore takes cautious approach to Hezbollah and Syria questions

# EU Talks

Gilmore takes cautious approach to Hezbollah and Syria questions

Jul 22nd 2013, 8:14 AM 3,077 Views 36 Comments

Some EU Member States want to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.

# Car Bomb

53 injured in car bomb in Shiite Beirut suburb

Jul 9th 2013, 2:14 PM 2,263 Views 4 Comments

The blast comes amid spiralling tension in Lebanon over the civil war raging in neighbouring Syria.

# Lebanon

16 soldiers dead as Lebanon clashes continue

Jun 24th 2013, 8:28 PM 5,238 Views 6 Comments

Fierce clashes continued for a second day between the army and gunmen loyal to a radical Sunni cleric in the Lebanon.

Israeli PM visits China after Syria strikes

# Middle East

Israeli PM visits China after Syria strikes

May 6th 2013, 9:57 AM 4,688 Views 103 Comments

Benjamin Netanyahu’s signalling of a return to “business as usual” may indicate that Israel does not expect an immediate retaliation for this weekend’s airstrikes.

The Evening Fix... now with added men trying to break into a police station

# Need To Know

The Evening Fix... now with added men trying to break into a police station

May 5th 2013, 7:50 PM 13,868 Views 3 Comments

Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.

Alan Shatter tells Israel: Ireland is still your friend

# Visit

Alan Shatter tells Israel: Ireland is still your friend

Mar 17th 2013, 3:36 PM 12,563 Views 231 Comments

The Minister for Justice also told an Israeli newspaper that he had been the target of some anti-Semitism during his time in politics but that it had been “extremely rare”.

# Protests

Hezbollah urges week of protests against anti-Islam film

Sep 17th 2012, 9:13 AM 2,980 Views 44 Comments

The news comes as 50 people are arrested in connection with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last week.

# Syria

US will intervene in Syrian crisis - but only if Assad uses chemical weapons

Aug 21st 2012, 12:39 PM 3,232 Views 42 Comments

President Obama says the issue of Syrian WMDs is two-fold, raising fears that chemical or biological weapons may fall into the hands of anti-Israeli extremists.

CIA spy rings uncovered in Iran and Lebanon

# CIA

CIA spy rings uncovered in Iran and Lebanon

Nov 22nd 2011, 8:13 AM 1,910 Views 6 Comments

The United States has suffered a huge security setback after several CIA operatives in two distinct networks were captured by Iran and Hezbollah. The informants are feared dead.

# Syria

Syria's Assad says intervention would create 'another Afghanistan'

Oct 30th 2011, 1:55 PM 222 Views 5 Comments

The Syrian President said that Western intervention in his country’s uprising would trigger massive unrest that would “burn the whole region.”

Column: ‘Breakfast is Lebanese porridge and UHT milk’ – an Irish soldier’s diary

# Opinion

Column: ‘Breakfast is Lebanese porridge and UHT milk’ – an Irish soldier’s diary

Aug 3rd 2011, 7:30 AM 268 Views 8 Comments

What is life really like for Irish troops in Lebanon? Hot and dangerous, writes Westmeath native Corporal Alan Rigney.

Arrest warrants issued for murder that 'changed Arab nation'

# Lebanon

Arrest warrants issued for murder that 'changed Arab nation'

Jun 30th 2011, 1:55 PM 179 Views 1 Comment

Many fear that tensions over the tribunal investigating the death of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could plunge the country into a new crisis.

# Middle East

Violent clashes continue in Egypt as protests sweep through Middle East

Jan 26th 2011, 10:31 AM 953 Views 0 Comments

Protests continue in Egypt following yesterday’s deaths, as demonstrators demand an end to repression and governmental corruption. Meanwhile in Tunisia, the interim government has said it will bow to the will of the people and reshuffle the cabinet today.