Amidst the rubble left by Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon, campaign posters urge support for Hezbollah in elections on Saturday as the group aims to show it retains political clout despite the pounding it took in last year's war.

The protester held a placard depicting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah holding a pager to his face, with the words ‘beep, beep, beep’.

After war with Israel weakened Iran-backed militias across the Middle East, including the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Lebanon’s government has moved to assert its authority over armed groups.

Kneecap's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been charged with a terrorism offence the Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday. The 27-year-old is facing charges after the Metropolitan Police reviewed footage of a performance by the group which took place at O2 Forum in Kentish Town, London, on 21 November last year.

The United States targeted two senior Hezbollah officials and two financial facilitators with new sanctions on Thursday for their role in coordinating financial transfers to the Iran-backed group, the Treasury Department said.

In a sudden and ferocious escalation, Israel launched a surprise night-time assault on Hezbollah targets deep inside South Lebanon, unleashing a torrent of precision airstrikes that lit up the skies with towering fireballs and mushroom clouds.

Hezbollah is “trying to regain its strength in Lebanon” and Israel will keep targeting it across across the country “with a U.S. cover,” an Israeli security source told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath television.

William Buckley, a decorated CIA officer, was not just missing. He was trapped, shackled and tortured. Isolated in a Beirut cell so dark and silent it erased the distinction between days and nights, reality and memory.