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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a largely hostile audience at the UN General Assembly Friday but the killing of one of Israel's top foes in an air strike just hours later shored up his domestic standing

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Embattled Netanyahu buoyed by Hezbollah chief’s killing: analysts

The killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is a major boost for embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced huge protests at...

AFPSeptember 28, 2024

Unlike Nasrallah, Hashem Safieddine has appeared openly at recent political and religious events -- including the funeral of Hezbollah members in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024

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Hashem Safieddine: possible successor to Hezbollah chief Nasrallah

Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to his slain cousin Hassan Nasrallah, is one of Hezbollah’s most prominent figures and has deep religious and family...

AFPSeptember 28, 2024

A picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reads in Farsi, 'Hezbollah is alive', in northern Tehran before the Lebanese movement confirmed his death, which Israel said occurred in a strike on Beirut

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Hezbollah: powerful Lebanese armed group with regional role

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has been a powerful domestic and regional force, politically and militarily, but the group’s confirmation on Saturday of its leader’s killing...

AFPSeptember 28, 2024

Hezbollah commanders killed in recent strikes

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The Hezbollah commanders killed in Israeli strikes

Israel has killed several top Hezbollah commanders in a series of targeted strikes on the Iran-backed movement’s stronghold in Beirut. Here is what we...

AFPSeptember 27, 2024

Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh on September 24, 2024

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Hezbollah announces death of commander after strike on south Beirut

Hezbollah announced on Wednesday the death of a commander, hours after the Israeli army said it had killed him in a strike on Beirut’s southern...

AFPSeptember 24, 2024

Black-clad mourners file past, one bearing a picture of killed Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil

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Mourners at commander’s funeral express loyalty to Hezbollah

Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon turned out in force Sunday for the funeral of a top commander killed in an Israeli air strike, in a...

AFPSeptember 22, 2024

The United States was offering a $7 million reward for information on Aqil, whom it blamed for the 1983 bombing of its Beirut embassy

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Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah elite unit commander wanted by the US

Ibrahim Aqil, who Israel said it killed in an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday, headed Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit and had been on...

AFPSeptember 20, 2024

A dance extravaganza by Lebanese troupe Mayyas, who won "America's Got Talent" in 2022, draws thousands to the Beirut waterfront hours after Hezbollah's top commander Fuad Shukr is laid to rest after his death in an Israeli air strike

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Thousands throng Beirut show as Hezbollah vows revenge

As Hezbollah’s leader threatened Israel with crushing retaliation for killing their top commander, thousands in Beirut flocked to a dance extravaganza in a stark...

AFPAugust 2, 2024