Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has described slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as the "heroic prince of the Arabs and the great symbol of the Resistance Front," in a letter marking two years since his killing at Israel’s hand.

“His speeches and initiatives strengthened the hearts of his people and the free people of the world," Khamenei said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Gebran Bassil has noted that the Lebanese people had “embraced” Hezbollah’s armed struggle against Israel because it “liberated the land and defended the nation against those who aggressed upon it.”

“However, they will not embrace Hezbollah if it forces political choices upon the State and its citizens that they do not want. It is of no use to win a military or political battle only to lose the idea of Lebanon -- the idea of equal partnership within it,” said Bassil in an op-ed commemorating slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that he published in al-Akhbar newspaper.

France prosecutors on Monday sought two years with an electronic tag and a five-year ban on public office for ex-culture minister Rachida Dati in a trial on corruption charges linked to dealings with the Renault-Nissan group.

They sought a four-year jail term for Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive former Renault-Nissan chief now living in Lebanon, who is being tried in absentia as part of the same trial in Paris.

On the occasion of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2026, UNESCO Regional Office in Beirut convened stakeholders from government, civil society, academia, media, youth and the technology sector to explore the role of access to information in strengthening information integrity in Lebanon’s increasingly digital information environment.

Held under the patronage and presence of H.E. Dr. Paul Morcos, Minister of Information of Lebanon, the event explored this year’s global theme, “Upholding Information Integrity in the Digital Age: The Role of Access to Information in Addressing Information Disorder.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea lashed out Monday at Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem, accusing him of bringing about the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, after Qassem criticized the framework agreement with Israel.

Qassem on Sunday told supporters gathered in Dahieh to mark two years since the killing of longtime leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that with the framework agreement, "the authorities are helping the Israeli-U.S. project instead of confronting it".

Two years after the dramatic assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, new details have emerged from the closed-door deliberations of the Israeli army’s Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Air Force.

“In the two years before the strike, this team studied the man to understand his lifestyle and what he was doing at all times. The investigation went down to the most intimate and precise details of his daily routine: when he went to sleep, what he liked to eat, who he usually traveled with. Once you have that amount of knowledge, there is nothing more powerful,” an Israeli intelligence commander told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

Two years after Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the group he shaped for decades is “still struggling to rebuild its command structure, military capabilities, and strategic standing following a campaign that systematically dismantled the network around him,” an Israeli media report said.

“On September 27, 2024, Nasrallah made one final choice. According to people intimately familiar with his routine and the security arrangements around him, he had safer places he could have gone that day. Nevertheless, he descended into an underground compound in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood, beneath a multi-story residential building,” Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported.

Hezbollah supporters gathered near the tomb of their late former chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of his killing by Israel, defiant even as two wars have left the Iran-backed group weakened.

AFP correspondents saw thousands of people, many carrying Hezbollah flags, rallying for the commemorative event in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel bombed during conflicts this year and in 2024.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Sunday that Israel had been unable to break his Iran-backed group, at a ceremony marking two years since Israel killed the group's longtime leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah has demonstrated that Israel and its soldiers "were unable to achieve their goals to break the resistance, end its existence, consolidate the Israeli occupation and establish settlements in Lebanon," Qassem said in an address televised at a gathering in Beirut's southern suburbs attended by thousands of the group's supporters in commemoration of Nasrallah.

Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Sunday for the annexation of areas of south Lebanon and the Gaza Strip currently under Israeli military control and for Israeli forces to "go to war" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

"I would like us to annex at least as far as the Yellow Line in Gaza (which demarcates the areas under Hamas and Israeli control) and as far as the Litani River in Lebanon... because if a war ends along the same lines where it began, what will deter the enemy from going to war again," Smotrich said in a podcast for Israeli news site Ynet.