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In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Hezbollah steps up security in Beirut’s Dahieh

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 27, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hezbollah security remains deployed on the street’s of Beirut’s Dahieh district, a southern suburb of the capital, one week after the twin suicide attack on the Iranian embassy in the city that killed at least 23 people, local...

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ISRAEL OUT Israeli soldiers are seen near an Iron Dome battery near Jerusalem, om Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Gil Yohanan)

Hezbollah rejects chemical weapon reports, welcomes Lebanese security in Dahieh

by Nazeer Rida | Sep 25, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday discussed recent developments in Syria and Lebanon in a speech which prompted observers to say Nasrallah was softening its stance on regional issues. Nasrallah said the movement welcomed the...

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Lebanese civilians gather next to the site of a blast outside the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli on August 23, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Lebanon: Two blasts shock Tripoli

by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Aug 24, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two powerful bomb attacks shook Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli shortly after Friday prayers, leaving at least 47 dead and over 500 injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the two attacks so far. The explosions come a week after a car...

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Municipal workers clean up following a car bomb attack the previous day that killed at least 22 people in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite group Hezbollah, which backs Syria’s embattled president on August 16, 2013. AFP PHOTO / STR

Lebanese security forces arrest car bomb suspects

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 19, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese security forces arrested four people on Saturday on suspicion of involvement in a car-bomb-making network. The arrests came only days after the explosion on Thursday in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold. The four male...

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A Hezbollah security man, right, speaks on his radio, as Hezbollah civil defense workers, left, check the site of a car bomb explosion in an overwhelmingly Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla.)

Unknown group claims responsibility for Beirut bombing

by Nazeer Rida | Aug 16, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A car bomb went off near Rweiss in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold, on Thursday, leaving at least 22 people dead and approximately 100 injured. This is the second attack against the Shi’ite-dominated area southern Beirut in the last 40...