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Lebanese Forces delegation visits Damascus

A Lebanese Forces delegation was on Tuesday meeting in Damascus with Syrian Information Minister Hamza Mustafa, MTV reported.

The delegation consisted of MP Melhem Riachi, who is a former information minister, and the LF’s foreign relations officer, Tony Darwish.

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Army chief in Saudi Arabia for meetings

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal has arrived in Saudi Arabia where he will hold a series of meetings, Al-Jadeed television reported.

Haykal held talks last week in the United States with senior military and political officials.

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UN force to withdraw most troops from Lebanon by mid 2027

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid 2027, its spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday, after the peacekeepers' mandate expires this year.

UNIFIL has acted as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon for decades and has been assisting the Lebanese army as it dismantles Hezbollah infrastructure near the Israeli border after a recent war with Israel.

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US Central Command congratulates army for dismantling Hezbollah tunnel in south

The United State Central Command congratulated the Lebanese Army for finding a Hezbollah tunnel in south Lebanon.

CENTCOM shared Monday a statement by its commander, Adm. Brad Cooper, on the X platform, in which he said the Lebanese army has found a massive underground tunnel for the second time in the past two months.

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Beirut's 'Mother of Cats' who rescues felines

Diana Abadi is known in the southern suburbs of Beirut as the "Mother of Cats."

For the past 12 years, she has turned her home and shop into a refuge for abandoned felines who now number between 50 and 70, and she often sleeps beside the cats as she cares for them full time.

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Residents of Tripoli lose neighbors, livelihoods in building collapse

Rubble is all that remains of the building once home to Adnan Mardash's grocery shop in north Lebanon's Tripoli after it collapsed, killing 14 people and shining a spotlight on the impoverished city's neglect.

Mardash, 54, said he shut the small ground-floor store where he worked for more than three decades and went to his nearby home shortly before the disaster on Sunday afternoon.

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114 Tripoli buildings to be evacuated, families to receive allowance

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has chaired a meeting with national and local officials, during which the decision was made to evacuate 114 buildings, in Tripoli, deemed to be at risk of collapse in stages over the course of a month.

The country's Higher Relief Committee will then work to reinforce the buildings that can be saved, while those that are seriously structurally unsound will be demolished, Salam told journalists after the meeting on Monday. He said a housing allowance would be provided to the evacuated families for one year.

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Qassem praises Aoun and Salam, says 'sedition' foiled

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday stressed that "the central problem facing Lebanon is the Israeli-American aggression."

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Israeli attacks on south kill four, including security officer and child

Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed four people on Monday including a Lebanese security forces member and his child, hours after the Israeli army seized a member of Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya.

Israel frequently strikes Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.

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Israeli forces abduct Jamaa Islamiya official from Lebanese town

In an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, Israelis forces seized a local official with the Jamaa Islamiya group and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported.

According to the NNA agency, Atwi Atwi — a local official with the Sunni Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group in English — was taken in the southern village of Hebbarieh, in the region of Hasbaya and close to the border with Israel.

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