BEIRUT: Lebanon's Hizbullah is preparing for a massive turnout for the funeral on Sunday of its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, an opportunity for a show of strength by the Iran-backed group after a bruising war with Israel.

BAGHDAD: Flights from Baghdad to Beirut are nearly at capacity as airlines increase services ahead of Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral, officials said.

BEIRUT: Lebanese media on Sunday reported that Israeli gunfire killed a woman as Washington pressed Beirut to disarm Hizbollah, two days before a deadline in the ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed group.

BEIRUT: The Lebanese army fired tear gas on Saturday at Hizbollah supporters protesting around Beirut airport against Lebanon blocking an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the Israeli military accused Tehran of using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm the Lebanese group.

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed today to punish the perpetrators of an attack on a United Nations peacekeeping convoy a day earlier that wounded the force's outgoing deputy commander.

BEIRUT: A Syria war monitor said Monday that overnight Israeli strikes targeted military positions and depots in several parts of the country, after rebels ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

BEIRUT, (Lebanon): Lebanese state media said Israeli air strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday shortly after Israel’s military warned residents to leave parts of the area, a bastion of Hizbollah.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said today that six of its peacekeepers serving under the United Nations were injured in an explosion in Lebanon.

BEIRUT: Hizbollah welcomes any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but does not pin hopes for a ceasefire on any particular US administration, Hizbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi said on Thursday when asked about Donald Trump’s election victory.

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanon’s transport minister said Thursday the country’s only international airport was operating normally, after Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, including one on an area near the hub.

BEIRUT, Lebanon: AFP footage showed strikes hitting south Beirut Thursday about an hour after the Israeli army called for residents of the Hizbollah bastion to leave, including from a location near Lebanon’s international airport.

BEIRUT: Hizbollah said on Wednesday that tens of thousands of its fighters were ready to fight Israel, adding that the US election result would have no bearing on the war in Lebanon.

BEIRUT: At least 30 people were killed and 35 injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Baalbek-Hermel governorate on Wednesday, the Palestine News Agency (WAFA) quoted the province’s governor, Bashir Khodr.

BEIRUT: At least 10 strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs early Friday, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for buildings in Hizbollah’s stronghold to evacuate.

DUBAI/ JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: Israel bombed military sites in Iran early on Saturday, but its retaliation for an Iranian attack this month did not target the most sensitive oil and nuclear facilities and drew no immediate vows of vengeance.

BEIRUT: Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes Sunday on branches of a Hizbollah-linked financial association, including near the country's only airport, after the Israeli military warned it would attack Al-Qard Al-Hassan's branches.

DAKAR: Hussein Hachem hugged his injured daughter as she arrived in Senegal on a flight repatriating citizens escaping the escalating conflict in Lebanon. His 14-year-old son was not with her - killed, he said, when their home was bombed.

Then bombs began falling in Beirut and now she wants to go home to the Philippines.

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Israel battled Hizbollah in south Lebanon as the air force expanded its bombardment of the country, with the Iran-backed group reporting “point-blank” fighting and Israel announcing the capture of a fighter.

BEIRUT: Hizbollah said on Sunday it was fighting Israeli forces trying to infiltrate Ramya village in southern Lebanon, as a third UN peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Lebanese group.