Lebanon's Shiite Muslims on Sunday gathered to mark the religious event of Ashura for the first time since Israel's war last ...

BEIRUT—Lebanese Shiites marked their annual day of mourning for Ashura on Wednesday, a massive showcase of power and defiance for the sect as it fights Sunni extremists on multiple fronts across ...

Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday ordered the arrest of armed men who took part in a religious gathering in ...

Naim Qassem says his group will not surrender or lay down weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the ...

Ashura: Lebanon’s Shia defiant in face of ISIL threat. Lebanese Shia mark Ashura amid increasing security threats and sectarian tensions.

For Ashura, Hezbollah encourages its supporters to give their blood for a good cause rather than spill it. "Every year, I go and give my blood to an association or a hospital that needs it.

Hezbollah supporters celebrated Ashura Day in southern Beirut on Tuesday. During the Islamic month of Muharram, Shiites commemorate the seventh-century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the ...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem reaffirmed that Lebanon will continue its resistance against the Israeli ...

Shi'ite Muslims around the world commemorate Ashura and mourn the death of Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. A small minority in Lebanon practices ritual bloodletting to mark the event.

Qassem, who succeeded longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah after Israel killed him in September, said the group’s fighters would ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Anti-Israel chants rang through the streets of a Hezbollah bastion in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday as thousands of black-clad Shiites commemorated the seventh-century ...

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashura, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022.