The history of Hezbollah, from Israel to Syria
Despite faltering popularity abroad, Hezbollah enjoys extensive political power at home in Lebanon. Once a champion of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, the group's popularity in the Middle East dropped amid its association with Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime in Syria [EPA] In July 2006, long-standing tensions flared into war when Hezbollah operators crossed into Israel, killed three soldie
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Dabiq from ISIL
Syrian opposition fighters backed by Turkey have taken control of the northern Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The fighters said they seized the town on Sunday following heavy shelling and months of air strikes. Dabiq is considered a major ISIL stronghold with symbolic importance to the group, also known as ISIS. A commander of the Syrian opposition
‘Chlorine bombs dropped’ in Aleppo as fighting rages
A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo has caused at least one death and dozens of cases of suffocation, according to local activists and medical sources. They say that the Syrian government used a helicopter to drop two barrel bombs loaded with gas on residents, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100. Rescue workers also sa
Iran raises force to deploy abroad, say reports
A previous version of this story identified Mohammad Ali Al Falaki as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). That was incorrect. Mohammad Ali Al Falaki is a retired IRGC commander. Iran has reportedly formed what it calls the “Liberation Army” whose units will be deployed in Arab countries, according to a news website. Currently, Iran is involved in a number of conflicts where S
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
He was killed on Tuesday night, the statement said, adding that the attack targeted one of Hezbollah’s bases near Damascus airport, the group’s nerve-centre in the Syrian capital. On Friday, thousands of Hezbollah supporters carried the coffin of Badreddine, draped in a Hezbollah flag, during his funeral procession in a southern suburb of Beirut. READ MORE: Israel – Any war with Hezbollah will be
Syrian Kurds ‘preparing to declare self-administration’
Top official says community left out of Geneva peace talks working on federal autonomous region of its own. Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, a Kurdish official says, as peace negotiations continue to be held in Switzerland about how to end the country’s five-year war. The step, which would combine three Kurdish-led autonomous areas of
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