https://sagire.online/topic/hezbollah/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/0f93c952/https://sagire.online/wire/0f93c952/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300A Yemeni government military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 13 military recruits were killed and 65 others wounded in a ballistic missile attack on a military training center in Qatabah district, northern Al-Dhalea, in southern Yemen, during morning exercises, and blamed the attack on the Houthis. A ballistic missile hit Hayfan in Taiz governorate and killed four Yemenis from the same family, including three children, on Wednesday, according to Middle East Eye. Houthi-run al-Masirah TV blamed the killing of three children and a woman, with four other children wounded in the same district, on a Saudi airstrike. On November 3, Yemeni Interior Minister Ibrahim Ali Haidan accused Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of sending military instructors to command Houthi combat operations, develop missile and drone programs and coordinate attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to TASS. Hezbollah denied the allegations and said the Yemeni authorities' statements about support for the Houthi offensive, military training and rearmament are “completely baseless”, adding that “the Yemeni people have sufficient capabilities, resources, and experience to defend their country without external support.”YemenHezbollahHouthisConflictMiddle East https://sagire.online/wire/fb583c26/https://sagire.online/wire/fb583c26/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:24:00 -0300Syrian authorities said they arrested two members of a Hezbollah cell and seized explosives allegedly intended for use on the Homs refinery, the last facility operational after the civil war. The state agency SANA reported the foiled plot on Sunday, and in early October Damascus had reported sabotage attacks first against an oil pipeline and then a gas one.SyriaHezbollahCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/d2b87d26/https://sagire.online/wire/d2b87d26/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:21:00 -0300Lebanon's Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar, who was appointed by Hezbollah, visited Syria on Monday with three other Lebanese ministers, the first time a member of the group has been formally welcomed in Damascus since the fall of the Assad regime. The delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, discussed refugee returns, border security, education and bilateral cooperation. Haidar said the trip is ministerial work with no partisan link.LebanonSyriaHezbollahDiplomacy https://sagire.online/lebanon-frozen-count/https://sagire.online/lebanon-frozen-count/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:22:00 -0300Strikes on the south and drones over Beirut, no negotiations anywhere, and an Israeli press report detailing occupation plans for Tyre, Sidon and Nabatieh. Meanwhile the Health Ministry’s death toll froze at 4,389 across 18 days of bombing — a count that stopped moving while the war did not.LebanonIsraelIranHezbollah https://sagire.online/wire/bf37acd4/https://sagire.online/wire/bf37acd4/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:22:00 -0300Israel has asked the Lebanese government to deploy troops to set up roadblocks in areas where Hezbollah operatives live, to prevent the group from joining a new war with Iran, according to an Israeli broadcaster cited by The Times of Israel. The request was relayed by US mediators, with the warning that fighting in Lebanon will flare up again if Hezbollah attacks Israel.IsraelLebanonHezbollahIranMiddle East https://sagire.online/wire/1b7dec12/https://sagire.online/wire/1b7dec12/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:22:00 -0300A Lebanese military court charged 13 people linked to Hezbollah with trafficking explosives, amid growing pressure on the Iran-backed group to disarm, according to Al Jazeera. The seized vehicle was carrying 780 kg (1,720 pounds) of explosives, including 250 kg (550 pounds) of TNT and 250 kg (550 pounds) of C-4, according to judicial officials. Hezbollah acknowledged owning the explosives and said they were intended for use against Israel, which continues to occupy large parts of southern Lebanon.LebanonHezbollahMiddle EastJusticeConflict https://sagire.online/wire/5418b2cc/https://sagire.online/wire/5418b2cc/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:24:00 -0300Hezbollah is unlikely to join a war between the United States and Iran if the two countries resume military operations against each other, unless Iran’s leadership faces an existential threat, according to a report by the United Arab Emirates state-owned outlet The National cited by the Jerusalem Post. According to Lebanese security personnel briefed on the group’s activities, Hezbollah spent at least three months preparing for a resumption of hostilities with Israel after receiving an infusion of cash from Iran.LebanonIranIsraelHezbollahUnited StatesMiddle EastConflict https://sagire.online/wire/290cd74e/https://sagire.online/wire/290cd74e/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:22:00 -0300A Lebanese military court has charged 13 people it says are linked to Hezbollah with trafficking in explosives. The individuals were charged with offenses including possessing weapons, undermining state security and forming illegal associations, Lebanese state media reported. The vehicle seized at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint had been carrying 780kg (1,720 pounds) of explosives, including 250kg (550 pounds) of TNT and 250kg (550 pounds) of C-4 plastic explosives, according to judicial officials. Hezbollah later acknowledged that the explosives belonged to the group and said they were intended for use against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according to Arab News.LebanonHezbollahJusticeMiddle EastIsrael https://sagire.online/wire/033c3346/https://sagire.online/wire/033c3346/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:23:00 -0300A judge at a Lebanese military court charged 13 people over a truck carrying explosives belonging to Hezbollah that authorities seized earlier this month, state media reported. Two of the defendants were arrested when the shipment was seized and are in custody. The others remain at large and were charged in absentia, five of them listed only by nicknames. The truck was stopped at a checkpoint on the main highway linking Beirut with the eastern Bekaa Valley and was carrying 780 kilograms of explosives, including 250 kilograms of TNT and 250 kilograms of C-4, according to judicial officials.LebanonHezbollahMiddle EastJustice https://sagire.online/wire/bd8a9642/https://sagire.online/wire/bd8a9642/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:23:00 -0300Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem rejected on Wednesday calls to disarm the Lebanese group under the June framework agreement brokered by the United States with Israel, according to Middle East Eye. “The resistance continues and will confront any aggression against it; there is no room for discussion regarding the surrender of its weapons,” Qassem said in a statement, according to the outlet.LebanonHezbollahIsraelDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/6e2c606c/https://sagire.online/wire/6e2c606c/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:22:00 -0300Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on a podcast that Israel should annex the territory it occupies in Gaza and Lebanon so that they “truly feel the cost of their mistake”, according to the Middle East Eye. According to the outlet, he said the annexation should go “at least up to the lines we’re currently holding” and that, if Hezbollah attacks again, it would go “all the way to Beirut” and, if they attack again, “even beyond that”.IsraelPalestineGazaLebanonHezbollahConflictHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/7633572c/https://sagire.online/wire/7633572c/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:24:00 -0300A Lebanese judge summoned two Hezbollah officials over a seized explosives shipment, and Lebanese security agencies are working to locate them and take them into custody, according to a judicial official cited by The Times of Israel, after Hezbollah admitted the explosives belonged to it.LebanonHezbollahJustice https://sagire.online/wire/6350ee33/https://sagire.online/wire/6350ee33/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:21:00 -0300Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared over the weekend that troops would not withdraw from the areas they currently control in southern Lebanon and warned the military could advance toward Nabatieh and the Litani River if Hezbollah launches further attacks. Katz claimed that more than 60 villages and 23,000 homes had been destroyed in an area of roughly 700 square km under Israeli control and that around 200,000 residents had been displaced, according to RT.IsraelLebanonConflictHezbollah https://sagire.online/wire/35a5f3ea/https://sagire.online/wire/35a5f3ea/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:21:00 -0300US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday about the seizure of hundreds of kilograms of explosives from Hezbollah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Rubio urged Aoun to hold accountable those who ordered, financed and directed the shipment and said that returning the explosives to Hezbollah “is out of the question.” Aoun asked Rubio to press Israel to halt attacks on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Presidency in a statement on X cited by Middle East Eye.LebanonUnited StatesThe LevantHezbollah https://sagire.online/wire/b4a56dd9/https://sagire.online/wire/b4a56dd9/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:22:00 -0300Iran instructed Hezbollah to raise its level of military readiness for a possible confrontation, according to Lebanese security and military sources cited by the Emirati site Erem News, in a report by The Jerusalem Post. All full-time Hezbollah members who receive monthly salaries were summoned, with the caveat that the directions were only preparations for a near-term scenario, with no final decision to go to war. Over the past two weeks, Hezbollah launched at least three drones and intelligence-gathering devices toward the security zone in southern Lebanon, according to Israeli Army Radio. Israel tried to intercept all three items and managed to bring down only one, according to the report in Hebrew media reproduced by The Cradle.IranLebanonIsraelHezbollahThe LevantConflict