Hezbollah, having been degraded by Israel during the low-intensity war of attrition in 2023 and 2024 and the all-out two-month war in 2024, is reeling from its defeat as it attempts to regroup and recover.

Israeli fighter jets bombed Syrian government forces in the south, where sectarian violence has erupted between the Druze minority and Bedouin tribes. So far, more than 300 people have been killed in the clashes since Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Hezbollah affirmed that the Zionist aggression is a flagrant violation of international laws and norms and a continuation of the ongoing attacks carried out by the Israeli enemy against Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen, as well as Iran.

Arms have been central to Hezbollah's doctrine since it was founded by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fight Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon in 1982, at the height of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war. Tensions over the Shi'ite Muslim group's arsenal sparked another, brief civil conflict in 2008.

Israel, which has intervened in Syria in support of the Druse minority, attacked the entrance of the government military headquarters in Damascus. The death toll in four days of violence rose to more than 200,

Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem has reaffirmed the group’s refusal to disarm while Israel continues its airstrikes and occupies parts of southern Lebanon.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to reach a “state of no war” with its southern neighbor, the country’s president said Friday.

From the shocking beginning that was the October 7 massacre, to the stunning aerial assault on Iran, the war in Israel developed like a real-life drama.