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IDF: As northern security improves, need to discuss practicalities of residents returning to border

For much of the war, 60,000 displaced residents of the North slammed the government for forgetting them while the country's attention focused on Gaza, the South, and the hostages.

 People react at the scene where a rocket, fired from Lebanon, damaged a residential apartment building when it landed in Israel, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Kiryat Yam, northern Israel, October 8, 2024.
 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna attends a joint news conference with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku, Azerbaijan April 27, 2023.

French FM: Lebanon must work to prevent war with Israel

French President Emmanuel Macron and Lebanon's President Michel Aoun wear face masks as they arrives to attend a meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon September 1, 2020.

Has Hezbollah defeated France in Lebanon?

A man rides a motorbike past a picture of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, near Sidon.

Lebanon's Hezbollah accuses US of obstructing government formation


France’s strategy for the Middle East lacks direction and clarity

France has led the fight against the EU taking action against Hezbollah, even though Hezbollah was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron at the scene of the explosion at Beirut Port, August 2020

France: Turkey and Iran are violating international law in Syria

Iran is a key ally of the Syrian government in the seven-year civil war and it says it has no intention of withdrawing unless Syria requested it do so.

UN chemical weapons experts inspect alleged chemical samples from an attack in Syria, 2013

Lebanon's Hariri leaves Saudi Arabia for France

Hariri's abrupt resignation while he was in Saudi Arabia and his continued stay there caused fears over Lebanon's stability.

CARS PASS next to a poster depicting Saad Hariri in Beirut earlier this week. Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister on November 4

Should there be a new push to outlaw all of Hezbollah in the EU?

To stop Hezbollah’s terrorism across the globe, particularly in Syria where the group has played an important role in the deaths of nearly 500,000 people, the EU will have to reconsider.

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim men from the Iranian-backed group Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag during a parade marking the annual Quds Day

French court orders suspect in 1980 synagogue bombing back to jail

French authorities allege that Diab was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and took part in the synagogue bombing.

A memorial plaque at Rue Copernic Synagogue for the four people killed there on Oct. 3, 1980

Tel Aviv, A Metropolis Transformed Into City of Bunkers

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Lebanese foreign minister denounces Arab League's designation of Hezbollah as terror group

FM calls decision "unacceptable," after the Iran-backed group is blacklisted by the 22-nation forum.

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah wave Hezbollah and Lebanese flags in south Lebanon

Protective Edge 2?

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Gunmen open fire on French police in Marseille during prime minister's visit

Elite police troops were being sent to the scene, in the northern suburbs of the Mediterranean port city, after the shots, the source said by telephone.

Police officers in France

French Ambassador dismisses rumors of resolution against Hezbollah

Ambassador Paoli: 'There is no French conspiracy against any political party.'

A session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva underway

Anti-terror patrol soldiers stabbed outside French Jewish center

Three French soldiers were lightly injured and police detained the attacker.

Police are seen outside a Jewish Community center, where two French soldiers were attacked and wounded in a knife attack in Nice February 3, 2015.