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During the 2023 conflict in Israel, U.S. intelligence reports indicated that Russia provided air support to Hezbollah for attacks against Israel. Russia's Wagner paramilitary organization reportedly transferred a Pantsir-S1 system to Hezbollah. The Pantsir, known as the SA-22 in NATO terminology, is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and ...
Hezbollah may use part of Russia's playbook in Ukraine to overwhelm Israel's air defenses. ... "So the conflict will enact the heavy toll, not only for Lebanon but also for Israel," he added.
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In the midst of the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, Russia's government declined to include Hezbollah in a newly released list of terrorist organizations, with Yuri Sapunov, the head of anti-terrorism for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, saying that they list only organizations which represent "the greatest ...
Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Hezbollah was still organised and had not lost its chain of command despite strikes by Israel which Moscow said was trying to stoke an armed ...
The US has repeatedly warned Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups to stay out of the conflict and has positioned aircraft carriers and troops in the region to try to deter against a potential ...
The Kremlin on Monday condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air attack last week and said it assessed the risk of a major Middle East war as "extremely high".
Middle Eastern crisis Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian internal political violence, the Israel–Lebanon conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war Clockwise from top: Fires in the Gaza envelope following the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, damage from the Israeli bombing of the Gaza ...