On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms of TNT were
A Lebanese Internal Security Forces officer guarding the site of the assassination
Memorial shrine to Hariri
Rue Minet al Hosn where Hariri was assassinated
Bashar al-Assad is widely regarded to have approved the assassination. International investigations revealed direct participation of members in the highest echelons of the Syrian government.
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Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing whose military and security activities have been prohibited by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid the
Assassination of Rafic Hariri
…the killing, which along with an independent investigation carried out by Lebanese Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan, found compelling evidence that Hezbollah carried out the assassination. One of the investigators, Wissam Eid, was assassinated in 2008. In August 2020, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon found…
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Hassan Nasrallah, the third Secretary General of Hezbollah
Nasrallah visiting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, August 2005