Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike in September 2024, and Israel continued attacks on Lebanon in the hours ahead of his funeral despite a ceasefire deal in place.

Israel has carried out multiple strikes in Lebanon since the ceasefire deal went into effect. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The funeral in Beirut, attended by Hezbollah officials and allies, aimed to show the group's strength despite conflict with Israel and loss of leaders.

Nasrallah died after Israel's air force dropped more than 80 bombs on the militant group's main operations room in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital

Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have begun providing oil from local fields they manage to the central government in Damascus, Syrian oil ministry spokesman Ahmed Suleiman told Reuters on Saturday.

Hezbollah called on its supporters to attend the funeral in large numbers in what appears to be a move to show that it remains powerful, while Israeli warplanes flew overhead.

The Lebanese militant group is grappling with a stunning reversal of fortune after its war with Israel and the ouster of its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad.

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in December, told a judge Friday that her client was illegally searched during his arrest and she would seek to exclude that evidence from his trial on state murder and terrorism charges.

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, made a comeback Friday.

Hundreds of thousands attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's former leader, nearly five months after his death in an Israeli airstrike.