The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger of what could happen in a country long dismissed as unsalvageable. Beirut’s new leadership reflects the aspiration of a majority of the Lebanese people to live in a functioning state free from the dual drivers of its failure: political violence and pervasive corruption.

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to withdraw from southern Lebanon to February 18, the United States confirmed on Sunday.

TEHRAN Tasnim ndash The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran strongly condemned the Zionist regimes targeting of Lebanese citizens attempting to

Tehran, IRNA – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said “Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are non-negotiable” after Israeli forces opened fire on displaced residents of southern Lebanon who were returning to their towns as a deadline for their withdrawal expired.

General António Guterres and the rotating President of the Security Council, Iran has categorically denied allegations from the Israeli regime that it has been smuggling advanced weapons systems to Lebanon.

Syria’s new regime recently claimed to have halted all weapons shipments headed to Lebanon. T he collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria was truly a turning point fo

Tehran, IRNA - The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, has said the mass pager explosions in Lebanon were part of Israel’s psychological warfare against the resistance front.

"Today, you can get in a car in Tehran and get out in the Dahia, Beirut." Five years and two months after Gen. Qasem Soleimani made this statement, the

Under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Nov. 27, Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon. While the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers had already deployed in several villages before the deadline, Israel remained in over a dozen villages.

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) has strongly rejected Israel’s claim that Tehran is smuggling advanced weaponry systems to Lebanon in violation of a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution, describing the accusation as “baseless and incorrect.

Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that Iran hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will choose rationality in his dealings with the Islamic Republic, adding that Tehran has never sought to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker said, with Baghdad looking to chart its own diplomatic path in the region and limit the power of armed groups.