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Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah made a televised speech Wednesday, meant to refute reports suggesting he was gravely ill and receiving treatments in Iran. The speech was aired on Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar. Nasrallah said that he "Didn't wish to interrupt the viewers," and he only came on the air "To refute the rumors that were spread over the past two days, that have left a negative impression.

Bulgarian Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov has reiterated his claim that two of the terrorists who carried out the bombing attack on a bus filled with Israeli tourists in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas in July 2012 are Hezbollah operatives. "The Burgas bombers were maintaining part of Hezbollah's structures in Canada and Australia and had contacts with other representatives of this organization," said Tsvetanov in an interview for TV7 on Friday.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah marked his 52nd birthday last week, and 7,000 Facebook users joined an event opened on the social network in celebration of his special day. The Facebook event was organized by several of Nasrallah's young fans. According to Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, the page was quickly flooded with greetings in honor of the Hezbollah chief's birthday.

The residents of southern Lebanon are worried. Should the brewing winds of war between Iran and Israel escalate to an actual conflict, they are likely to be caught in the middle – literally. Israel is investing in its home front readiness, but the residents of southern Lebanon have but a mere fraction of the civilian defenses available to Israelis.

The leader of Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah said his group will transform the lives of millions of Israelis to "hell" if Israel attacks Lebanon. Speaking in a televised speech marking Jerusalem Day on Friday, Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah has a list of Israeli targets that it can hit with few rockets. "I tell the Israelis that you have a number of targets, not a large number ... that can be hit with precision rockets ... which we have." He said he would not name the targets and did not say whether the rockets were newly acquired weapons.

Israel has evidence of many telephone calls between Lebanon and Burgas in the two months before the bombing that killed six people, The New York Times reported. The volume of calls intensified in the three days before the attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists, the newspaper reported Thursday, citing an unnamed senior government official, pointing the finger even more directly -- in Israel's eyes -- at the terror group Hezbollah.

Kuwaiti media is reporting that Tehran is concerned over the safety of the Secretary General of Hezbollah arch terrorist Hassan Nasrallah after the expected fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has demanded that Nasrallah come to Iran out of fear that there will be assassination attempts on Nasrallah’s life in the event that Syria’s opposition takes power.

Lebanese newspaper Al-Jounhouria reported Wednesday that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah contacted Syrian President Bashar Assad after last week's terrorist attack in Damascus and offered to meet him in Lebanon and help with reinforcements. The report has not been confirmed. Meanwhile, Russia accused the US of trying to justify terrorism against the Syrian government and berated Western nations it said had failed to condemn a bomb attack that killed senior security officials.

On March 23, 1978, following one of the earliest Israeli invasions of Lebanon, the first United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) arrived in the country to oversee the IDF withdrawal and monitor the situation. In the years since, the force has been extended annually and expanded a number of times as conflict between the two countries continues. On March 11 of that year, Palestinian terrorists based in Lebanon carried out the deadliest terror attack ever perpetrated in Israel – the Coastal Road Massacre. Launched by sea from southern Lebanon, Fatah terrorists landed in central Israel and began a shooting spree and bus hijacking that left 38 people dead and over 70 injured.

Shortly after 8 a.m. on March 16, 1984, like every other morning, CIA station chief in Beirut William Buckley left his 10th floor penthouse apartment in the western part of the city for the American Embassy. On that morning, he had decided to drive himself to work, against regulations for US officials in Lebanon at the time due to the danger of kidnapping. All non-essential staff and diplomats’ family members had been evacuated from the country a month earlier. As recalled at the time by the manager of Buckley’s apartment building, the CIA officer walked out of the building that morning and got into his car, parked in an adjacent lot. Almost immediately after leaving the parking lot, a white Renault in front of him stopped short and forced him to a stop. A gunman walked up to Buckley, pointed a pistol at his head and put him into the Renault without a fight. Aside from in two disturbing videos sent to US diplomats in the following months, he would never be seen alive again.

The British government has refused to release documents containing information on the fate of three Israeli soldiers missing since 1982, because it claims the sensitive material could harm diplomatic ties with Syria, The Jewish Chronicle reported.

In February 2008, Lebanese authorities were surprised to find a secret communication network that Iran had set up all over Lebanon for Hezbollah's benefit, US cables released by the WikiLeaks website suggest.

Iran's state-owned news agency published an exclusive interview Sunday with the father of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah. Abu-Hassan Nasrallah, 75, told an IRNA reporter who visited the parents in their Beirut home that his son, whom he calls Sayyid Hassan, comes around about once a year.

Israel - The headline of the newspaper Tafnit Bahadashot, in white letters on a red background, was alarming: "First chemical attack on Israel – dozens dead, hundreds injured."

Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.

Just days before the tenth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah hosted hundreds of students at what it called 'The Land of Islamic Resistance'.

With a startled shout from the outcrop above, the Hizballah fighter bounded down the rocky slope and cocked his AK-47 rifle in a dramatic flourish as he drew near. "What are you doing here?" he demanded, his face a mix of anger and astonishment. "This is a military zone. You should not be here."

Lebanon claimed another victory in the continuing battle with Israel over on Saturday as to which country can make the largest plate of the chickpea delicacy hummus -- with a  20,000-pound  broadside.

Lebanon has filed a complaint with the UN Security Council claiming that Israeli soldiers entered its territory in the area of the Shebaa Farms and confiscated 185 goats, the Lebanese Daily Mail reported Saturday.

The Lebanese military on Wednesday transferred to Syria the remains of two Syrian soldiers found near the village of Sultan Yacoub last week, Lebanese media reported.