CAIRO (AFP) - A Cairo court on Wednesday handed down jail terms of up to 15 years to 26 defendants it convicted of working for Hezbollah, in a trial which reflected Egypt's tense ties with the Lebanese militant group.
The 22 accused who were in the dock received jail terms of between six months and 15 years, after calls from prosecutors for the death penalty.
Three of the four defendants [...]
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BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah on Wednesday shot back at US charges it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons, accusing Washington of destabilising the Middle East and vowing to continue to build its artillery.
"The resistance has the right to use all legitimate means to build its capacity to defend Lebanon," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told AFP on Wednesday.
"US arms are annihilating the peo [...]
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BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah has shot back at US accusations it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons and vowed to continue to build its artillery, in comments published on Wednesday.
"Our choice was and remains to secure all the arms of resistance that we can," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told the Arabic-language newspaper As-Safir, which is close to the Shiite militant group.
The daily r [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it considered "all options" on the table if Syria is found to have supplied Scud missiles to Hezbollah, posing a major threat for Israel.
Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said the United States would have "really, really serious concern" if Syria delivered such high-grade weapons to the Lebanese Shiite [...]
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BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah on Tuesday denounced a UN report calling on the party to give up its arms amid alarm in the United States and Israel that the Shiite group had acquired Scud missiles.
"Hezbollah denounces the United Nations report on Security Council Resolution 1559," Hezbollah said in a statement.
"Hezbollah is not a militia, as the United Nations describes it, but a Lebanese resist [...]
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BEIRUT (AFP) - US concern over allegations that Syria has been supplying Scud missiles to Hezbollah serves to encourage Israel to attack Lebanon, the Lebanese Shiite militant group said on Saturday.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has accused Damascus of providing Hezbollah with the missiles, prompting Washington to warn that the trade "potentially puts Lebanon at significant risk."
"With [...]
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BEIRUT (AFP) - Damascus stands ready if "war is imposed" by Israel as regional tensions rise and hopes for peace fade, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Lebanese television Wednesday.
"We are faced with an enemy that has shown until this day that it understands nothing but the language of force, and it seems that peace in the region is not in the horizon," Assad said in an interview in Arab [...]
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