Hezbollah left badly weakened by war, ousting of Assad in Syria Group seeks mass turnout to show political strength, analyst says Nasrallah was temporarily buried next to his son after death BEIRUT, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike,

He was mocked across social media.” In recent months Lebanon and Syria have undergone political earthquakes. Jordanians are wondering whether their country will be next. The kingdom is already bracing for the fallout from the latest advance of Israeli tanks into the occupied West Bank.

The flyover during Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral and the warnings this week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reflect Israel’s concerns over its borders with both Lebanon and Syria.

The Israeli military vowed to "prevent any attempt by the Hezbollah terrorist organization to rebuild its forces."

Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of people have died as fighting raged in Gaza, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

The Trump administration’s Middle East envoy also said that Lebanon and Syria could join the Abraham Accords U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks during the FII Priority Summit in Miami Beach,

Lebanon, by the way, could actually mobilize and come into the Abraham Peace Accords, as could potentially Syria," said Witkoff, but is this possible?

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) reported that on Thursday night, in the Al-Harmal area in Lebanon, an Israel Air Force aircraft attacked and killed Muhammad Mahdi Ali Shahin, a Hezbollah terrorist who was involved in the concentration of terrorist transactions for the purchase of weapons on the Syria-Lebanon border after the ceasefire

Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated a milestone that once seemed unthinkable: a return visit to their home country.

Assad, Israel launches more attacks, disrupting the national dialogue and asserting control over southern Syria as part of a regional escalation.

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