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The National
07-07-2025
- Politics
- The National
Key points from Lebanon's seven-page response to US demand to disarm Hezbollah
Lebanon, under mounting pressure to disarm Hezbollah, has delivered an ' unbelievably satisfying ' response to a US request to initiate the process, as described by Special Envoy Thomas Barrack on Monday. The US plan links Hezbollah's full disarmament across Lebanon to reconstruction funding and a halt to Israeli military operations in the country. The National, through Lebanese officials, has been informed of the document's contents. 'The document had been in the works for days on the Lebanese side, with input from advisers to the Prime Minister, the President and the Speaker of Parliament. Work on it continued until just hours before the arrival of the US envoy,' said one of the officials. 'The final additions and amendments to the paper requested by Thomas Barrack were made late on Sunday night, with Hezbollah participating through MP Mohammad Raad, head of the party's parliamentary bloc, and Hussein Khalil, the group's security adviser." The seven-page document centres on demands for a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory, including the contested Shebaa Farms. It also reaffirms the state's commitment to controlling all arms nationwide and pledges to dismantle Hezbollah's weapons in south Lebanon. However, it stops short of explicitly committing to disarming Hezbollah across the entire country. Here are the key elements from the document: The United States is called upon to play an active role in pressuring Israel to stop its repeated aggressions against Lebanon and to ensure respect for the understandings on the cessation of hostilities. Activation of the 'Mechanism Committee' to implement the ceasefire. Reaffirmation of the implementation of the Taif Agreement and Resolution 1701. Lebanon's commitment to the understanding on the cessation of hostilities resulting from Resolution 1701. Dismantling Hezbollah's facilities south of the Litani River, in the context of strengthening the authority of the state, extending its sovereignty and establishing an area free of any armed presence outside the framework of the state. A demand for Israeli withdrawal from the five points and disputed areas, foremost among them the Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shouba Hills. A demand for the return of Lebanese prisoners and detainees held by Israel. Renewal of Unifil's mandate and support for the Lebanese Army, enabling it to carry out its duties in co-ordination with the Lebanese Army. Lebanon calls on the international community to provide logistical and financial support to the Lebanese Army to allow it to expand its deployment south of the Litani. Arab countries are to sponsor the course of Lebanese-Syrian relations in a way that ensures the safe return of Syrian refugees, with an emphasis on controlling the Lebanese-Syrian border. Commitment to the presidential oath and ministerial statement, especially in protecting sovereignty, implementing reforms and upholding the state's authority and institutions. Continuing financial and economic reforms. The importance of reconstruction and facilitating Lebanon's commitments.
Iraqi News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Iraqi News
Funeral held in Baghdad for ex-bodyguard of Hezbollah leader
Baghdad – Hundreds of people attend the funeral in Baghdad of Hussein Khalil – the former bodyguard of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – his son Mahdi, and Haider al-Moussawi, commander of the security unit of the Iraqi armed group the Sayyed al-Shuhada Brigades. All three were killed a day earlier in an Israeli drone strike in Iran near the Iraqi border.
Shafaq News
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Iraq mourns PMF, Hezbollah commanders killed in Tehran
Shafaq News/ On Sunday, Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) held a funeral procession in central Baghdad for Haider al-Moussawi, a commander in the Iraqi Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada, and Hussein Khalil, the former personal aide to Lebanon's Hezbollah's former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. The procession took place on Palestine Street and drew participation from PMF leaders, clerics, and political figures, alongside a significant public turnout. On Saturday, Iranian and Israeli media reported that both men were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The reports indicated the strike targeted Khalil, also known as Abu Ali, along with al-Moussawi, while they were in the Iranian capital.
Middle East Eye
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israeli strike in Iran kills ex-bodyguard of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
An Israeli air raid in Iran has killed Hussein Khalil, a former bodyguard of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, a senior official from the Iran-backed group confirmed on Saturday. Khalil, widely known as Abu Ali and nicknamed Nasrallah's 'shield,' was reportedly killed near the Iranian-Iraqi border after crossing into Iran, according to the official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. An Iraqi armed group also stated that one of its commanders had died in the same strike, and confirmed the deaths of both Khalil and his son.
Arab News
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Ex-bodyguard of slain Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli strike in Iran
His former bodyguard Hussein Khalil was killed in IranAn Iraqi border guard officer said Khalil and a member of an Iraqi armed group were killed by 'an Israeli drone strike'BEIRUT: A former bodyguard for Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, an official from the Tehran-backed militant group more than a week, Israel has been carrying out waves of air attacks on Iranian targets in the foes' worst confrontation in assassinated Nasrallah in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27 last year, during a war that left Hezbollah severely former bodyguard Hussein Khalil — commonly known as Abu Ali, and nicknamed Nasrallah's 'shield' — was killed in Iran near the Iraqi border, the Hezbollah official told AFP on condition of Iraqi border guard officer told AFP that Khalil and a member of an Iraqi armed group were killed by 'an Israeli drone strike' after crossing into the neighboring Iraqi group, the Sayyed Al-Shuhada Brigades, said that the commander of its security unit, Haider Al-Moussawi, was killed in the 'Zionist attack,' along with Khalil and his son former bodyguard had appeared alongside Nasrallah for years during the leader's rare public two men also shared family ties, with one of Khalil's sons married to a granddaughter of Nasrallah's funeral in February, Khalil stood atop the vehicle carrying the slain leader's funeral drew a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, the first mass event organized by Hezbollah since the end of its war with five children were wounded in Iraq on Saturday by fallen debris from a missile near the town of Dujail in the northern province of Salaheddin, security and medical sources told AFP on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the children sustained moderate and minor injuries, a medical source said.A security source in the area confirmed the children were wounded by 'a fallen fragment from a missile.'The origin of the missile was not Israel launched its unprecedented attack on Iran last week, Iranian missiles and drones have been crossing paths with Israeli warplanes in the skies over Iraq, forcing Iraq to close its airspace to commercial traffic.
