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Israel-Hezbollah skirmishes: Latest developments

Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on Sunday targeted several southern Lebanese border areas, as Hezbollah announced a fresh attack on Israeli troops.

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War monitor says Israel struck Hezbollah arms depot in Syria

A war monitor said Israeli strikes on Syria early Sunday targeted at least two sites in Damascus province including a weapons depot, while state media said a soldier was wounded in the attack.

Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on targets in Syria since civil war broke out in 2011, mainly targeting Iran-backed forces including militants from Lebanon's Hezbollah as well as Syrian army positions.

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Bassil says it was Hezbollah that abandoned MoU, not FPM

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that the the FPM’s 2006 memorandum of understanding with Hezbollah “has not collapsed” although it needs “improvement.”

“Its ideas remain valid but it needs improvement, something that has not happaned,” Bassil said during the FPM’s annual dinner.

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Leaf says Nasrallah taking Lebanon to "dangerous place"

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf has accused Hezbollah of putting Lebanon on a slippery slope.

"It is a place of great volatility and risk," Leaf said in an interview with Sky News Arabia, adding that Hezbollah and its leader are "taking a lot of risks" that could take the group and Lebanon itself into a "dangerous place."

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Army dismantles Israeli aircraft missile in Hrajel

The army’s Engineering Regiment on Friday dismantled the unexploded Israeli aircraft missile that fell three days ago between residential buildings at the entrance of the Keserwan district town of Hrajel, the National News Agency said.

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Israel-Hezbollah border clashes: Latest developments

The Israeli army bombed Friday several southern border towns while Hezbollah attacked several posts in northern Israel.

Hezbollah said it targeted the posts of al-Malkia and al-Marj and a group of soldiers near al-Raheb post.

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Report: Iran uses European ports for arms sent to Hezbollah

Iran is using European ports to “provide cover for shipments of weapons to Hezbollah,” British newspaper The Telegraph has reported.

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Lebanon officially replies to French paper

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Friday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro and handed him Lebanon’s official response to the paper that has been recently submitted by Paris as part of its efforts to pacify the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Expressing Lebanon’s “deep appreciation for the French efforts,” Bou Habib said the Lebanese response describes the French initiative as “an important step to reach peace and security in south Lebanon.”

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Report: Nasrallah, Iran's Qaani agree on avoiding war with Israel

As the efforts to reach a truce in Gaza ran aground and Israel’s threats to invade Rafah escalated, the Quds Force head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard visited Lebanon, Syria and Iraq last week and held talks with the leaders of the groups that are allied with his country, a media report said.

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Aoun dubs Hezbollah's involvement in Gaza war 'a losing battle'

Former President Michel Aoun has informed Hezbollah that he does not support the group's point of view regarding involving Lebanon in Gaza's war.

"This is a losing battle," al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Aoun as saying, in a report published Friday.

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