Nasrallah: Hezbollah has 'right' to wage 'pre-emptive war' in Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ali Hashem

Ali Hashem

Feb 17, 2014

Syrian children chant anti- Free Syrian Army slogans as their hold posters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian flags at the Sayeda Zainab area in Damascus, February 10, 2014. Picture taken February 10, 2014. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTX18VH0 — Syrian children chant anti-Free Syrian Army slogans as they hold posters of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian flags at the Sayyida Zeinab area of Damascus, Feb. 10, 2014. — REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Israeli soldiers sit on top of tanks as they take part in an exercise in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC16E85FD020

Will Israel launch pre-emptive strike against Assad?

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

A boy wearing an army suit is held by people as they watch Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as he appears on a screen during a live broadcast to speak to his supporters at an event marking Resistance and Liberation Day, in Bekaa valley May 25, 2013. The event is to commemorate the 13th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) MEDIA ANNIVERSARY) - RTX100EC

Nasrallah on Syria: 'This Battle Is Ours'

Ali Hashem

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict

Cars burn at the site of an explosion in the Shi'ite town of Hermel February 22, 2014. A suicide bomber killed two Lebanese soldiers with a car bomb near an army checkpoint in a Hezbollah stronghold in northeast Lebanon on Saturday, security sources said.The latest bombing, in a country destabilised by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, was the third such attack in recent weeks in Hermel, a predominantly Shi'ite Muslim area near the border with Syria. Fifteen people were wounded. REUTERS/Rami Bleibel (LEB

Nasrallah talks Palestine after bombings in Lebanon

Haytham Mouzahem

Haytham Mouzahem

Angelina Eichhorst, head of EU delegation in Lebanon, meets with Ammar Moussawi, Hezbollah's international relations official in Beirut's southern suburbs July 25, 2013. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday the European Union had given Israel justification to attack Lebanon by blacklisting the armed wing of his group, and would bear responsibility for any Israeli military action. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX11YHU

Does Hezbollah Seek Cold Peace With EU?

Ali Hashem

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict