Lebanon

Hezbollah vows not to leave Israeli attacks unanswered

TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) – Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah has announced to respond to the continued Israeli aggression on south of the country.

7 killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) – The death toll from an Israeli air attack on the southern Lebanese town of Ansar has risen to seven, according to local media.

Israeli regime violates Lebanon truce, strikes Syria

TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) – Israeli forces attacked multiple areas of southern Lebanon on Saturday and set farmland ablaze in southern Syria's Quneitra countryside, Lebanese and Syrian media reported.

Israel only understands language of force: Qassem

TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem says Israel’s 33-day war against Lebanon in 2006 has proved that the occupying regime only understands the language of force.

Senior cleric:

Lebanese government’s direct talks with Israel ‘pointless’

TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) – Vice President of Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Shia Council (SISC), Sheikh Ali Khatib, has categorically dismissed direct talks between the Beirut government and the Israeli regime, stressing that the negotiations are pointless.

Iran strongly condemns Israeli crimes against Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has denounced the brutal attacks by the occupying regime of Israel against areas in southern Lebanon over the past few days.

Israeli airstrikes hit south Lebanon again

TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) – Israeli warplanes struck areas near the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri on Monday, in a fresh violation of the ceasefire.

Zionist regime continues vast attacks across Gaza

TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – Israeli regime forces continued widespread attacks on various areas across the Gaza Strip in recent hours, injuring a number of Palestinians, including a child as military operations and bombardments persisted in the enclave.

Israeli gunfire, shelling reported in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – Israeli forces opened fire using machineguns this morning towards the southern Lebanese town of Wadi al-Salouqi.

Israel attacks cause massive blasts, fires in south Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) – Israeli forces carried out a massive explosion in the Mansouri area of southern Lebanon on Sunday and set forested hills ablaze with drone-dropped bombs, triggering widespread fires across several locations.

Israeli army deliberately killed Lebanese journalist "Khalil"

TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) – A joint investigation has concluded that the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon, subsequently orchestrating a hours-long obstruction of rescue efforts.

Israel burns over 120-ha olive groves in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The occupying regime of Israel burnt more than 120 hectares of centuries-old olive groves in southern Lebanon.

Israeli regime builds more military bases in south Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The Israeli military is building at least seven new bases and dozens of kilometres of roads in southern Lebanon, according to Israeli media.

Iran-US MoU stopped Israeli aggression: Hezbollah chief

TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on Tuesday condemned direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel as bringing nothing but shame and humiliation, adding that only the Iran-U.S. truce MoU halted Israeli attacks.

Iran proposes Muslim security alliance in region

TEHRAN, Aug. 03 (MNA) – Iran's acting defence minister on Sunday called for a joint security mechanism among Islamic countries, warning that the presence of extra-regional forces only fuels instability in the region.

Israeli regime intensifies strikes on south Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 03 (MNA) – Israeli forces intensified air and artillery strikes on southern Lebanon overnight and into Monday, hitting multiple border towns, setting olive groves ablaze and bombing the Ali al-Taher heights in the Nabatieh district.

Israel intensifies its attacks deep inside southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) – The occupying regime of Israel has intensified its military aggression deep inside southern Lebanon on Friday evening, carrying out a series of powerful explosions near the town of Taybeh in the Marjayoun district.

Israeli artillery hits Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 29 (MNA) – The southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa has come under heavy artillery fire by the Israeli regime.

Following truce violations:

Israeli forces attack Nabatieh region in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 27 (MNA) – Israeli forces shelled areas in southern Lebanon early Monday, targeting the outskirts of the Ali al-Taher Heights in the Nabatieh region, local media reported.

Iran’s support for Hezbollah ‘a strategic policy’: Leader

TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has described Iran’s support for the resistance front as a “strategic mandate” in a letter to Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem.

Large blast reported in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district

TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) – A large explosion shook the area of Masha’a al-Mansouri in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, with the blast heard in the city of Tyre.

Israeli drone strike wounds paramedics in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 23 (MNA) – An Israeli drone strike has wounded several paramedics in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese troops deploy to south following Israeli pull-out

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The Lebanese army says its soldiers have begun deploying in the southern town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the sector as part of a US-mediated agreement.

Israel launches fresh attack on areas in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) – The Israeli military has carried on with its offensive attacks in southern Lebanon, conducting airstrikes, artillery shelling, explosions, sound-bomb attacks, and tree-cutting activities that resulted in several injuries.

Israeli forces destroy 3 schools in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) – Israeli regime forces have looted and destroyed three schools in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s education minister.

Lebanon calls for end to Israel’s occupation

TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) – Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi has said that the goal of the country’s armed forces is to “gradually extend their authority over all Lebanese territory, including the south.”

Israeli forces set off large blast in south Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – The Israeli military carried out a large explosion in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Tebnit on Sunday, Lebanese media reported.

'Israel' continues to violate truce by bombing S. Lebanon

TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) – The Zionist Israeli regime continued its violations of the US-Iran ceasefire by combing different arease in south Lebanon on Saturday.