Bruno Finel

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Tuesday that Ali Larijani, Iran's security chief, had been killed in an Israeli strike. Tehran has not confirmed or denied the claim.

Drive through the main arteries of South Lebanon today and the landscape tells a story that Beirut's government would rather not acknowledge: this is not Lebanon. This is Hezbollah's territory — and it looks like an Iranian province.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced Sunday it had come under fire on three separate occasions while Blue Helmet troops were conducting patrols around their bases in Yater, Qalaouiye (Bint Jbeil) and Deir Kifa (Tyre). 

Hezbollah announced Saturday it had launched a significant wave of attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon - while reports from Axios indicate that Israel is preparing a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanese territory.

As Hezbollah's war with Israel escalates and Lebanon descends deeper into crisis, one regional actor has made its position unmistakably clear: Syria under Ahmed al-Sharaa is not Bashar al-Assad's Syria, and Hezbollah should not mistake the two.

The Spanish government has officially terminated the functions of its ambassador to Israel, confirmed by a royal decree published Wednesday in the Official State Gazette. 

A small group of protesters gathered in New York on Saturday to denounce the US-Israeli military operation against Iran. They carried signs. They chanted slogans. They demanded an end to the war.

France's special envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, took a rare step forward on Friday, publicly blaming Hezbollah for choosing Iran over Lebanon. 

Cornered by relentless US and Israeli strikes, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took to X on Friday with a carefully crafted message: "We are committed to lasting peace in the region yet we have no hesitation in defending our nation's dignity and sovereignty."

The Lebanese government has taken two significant steps to distance itself from Tehran amid the escalating regional conflict: canceling visa-free entry for Iranian citizens and formally banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from operating on Lebanese soil.

The Lebanese government has suffered a catastrophic loss of credibility. Just months ago, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam confidently announced the near-total disarmament of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and along the Israeli border, a declaration welcomed by Western capitals eager to believe the region was stepping back from the brink.

Pedro Sanchez has once again chosen to place himself firmly on the wrong side of history, doubling down Wednesday on his refusal to support the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, threatening the cohesion of NATO and exposing himself as the Western leader most willing to provide diplomatic cover for a theocratic regime that has spent decades sponsoring terrorism across the globe.