BEIRUT: Lebanons military prosecutor Thursday charged SheikhOmar Atrashover his alleged involvement in several car bombings as well as attacks targeting the Lebanese Army,Hezbollahand Israel. Hours before JudgeSaqr Saqrcharged Atrash, the military disclosed some of what the Sunni preacher confessed to during interrogation, including that he had ties ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A powerful car bomb explosion killed at least four people and wounded 25 others in downtown Hermel, near the border with Syria on Thursday, a medic said. The blast, which went off in front of the main government administration building in Hermel, was the first to hit the town since the conflict in Syria erupted in March 2011, Al-...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A car bomb explosion hit near a Hezbollah position in Eastern Lebanon, causing a number of casualties, media reports said. "A blast went off at around 4:00 am (0200 GMT)... near a Hezbollah position in Sbouba... causing deaths and injuries," a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. Reports say at least 20 people were ...

A Lebanese man suspected of involvement in the deadly car bomb attacks in Beiruts southern suburbs has been killed in a rocket attack inside Syria. Omar al-Atrash along with his two entourages Ziad al-Atrash and Samer Houjairi were killed on Friday when a rocket hit their car in the area of Nehmat on the Lebanese-Syrian border. "A delegation from ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has strongly condemned a deadly twin car bombing in northern Lebanon that killed dozens of people, and expressed sympathy with the families of the victims. Undoubtedly, the wicked hands of the Zionist regime (of Israel) have now come out of the sleeves of Takfiri groups and irresponsible extremists, who intend to sow the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian condemned Friday bomb explosions in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, and called on the Lebanese people and elites to be aware of extremists' threats and the plots hatched by the enemies of Lebanon to destabilize the Muslim state. Amir Abdollahian called ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Jordan has been behind the terrorist car bomb explosions in Lebanon and Syria, a leaked intelligence report said. The Lebanese intelligence apparatus had received some information around three months ago indicating that Jordan has turned into a gateway for the passage of bomb-laden cars into Lebanon and Syria. It has been mentioned ...

Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has blamed Takfiri groups for a car bomb attack which left 24 people dead in southern Beirut. Addressing thousands of Hezbollah supporters on the occasion of the end of the groups 33-day 2006 war with Israel in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab, Nasrallah said on Friday that according to investigations ...

The powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least a dozen people and trapping dozens of others in burning cars and buildings in the latest apparent violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)  ...