2013 · Lebanon History
- 4 April 2013Battle of Qusayr beginsOn 4 April 2013 the Syrian army and Hezbollah began the offensive in the Qusayr countryside bordering Hermel, the…
- 30 April 2013Nasrallah confirms Hezbollah fighting in SyriaOn 30 April 2013 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explained the reasons for fighting in Syria: more than 30,000 Lebanese in the…
- 19 May 2013The battle for QusayrOn 19 May 2013 the Syrian army and Hezbollah entered the town of Qusayr from several axes after the evacuation of…
- 25 May 2013Liberation Day 2013 at Mashghara: "be where you wish"On 25 May 2013, on Resistance and Liberation Day in Mashghara and at the height of the battle of Qusayr, Sayyed Hassan…
- 28 May 2013First rockets from Syria on Hermel
- 31 May 2013Parliament's term extendedOn 31 May 2013 parliament extended its own term by 17 months on the pretext of the security situation and the lack of…
- 23 June 2013The Battle of AbraOn 23 and 24 June 2013 the army fought the group of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir in Abra (Sidon) after its attack on an army…
- 9 July 2013Car bomb in Bir al-AbedOn 9 July 2013 a car bomb exploded in a car park near the Islamic Cooperative in Bir al-Abed in the southern suburbs,…
- July 2013The MOC operations room in Amman coordinates the southern Syrian rebelsIn the second half of 2013 the "Military Operations Centre" (MOC) was set up in Amman under the supervision of…
- 15 August 2013The Ruwais bombingOn 15 August 2013 a car bomb exploded in Rweiss in the southern suburbs, killing 27 people and wounding more than 300;…
- 16 August 2013Nasrallah after Rouwaiss: "I will go to Syria myself"On 16 August 2013, the day after the Rweiss bombing, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the bombings would not deter the…
- 21 August 2013The Ghouta chemical attackAt dawn on 21 August 2013 hundreds of civilians were killed by sarin gas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus; Washington…
- 23 August 2013Al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques bombedOn 23 August 2013 two car bombs exploded outside the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli during Friday prayers,…
- 19 October 2013Azaz hostages freed
- 19 November 2013Bombing outside the Iranian embassyOn 19 November 2013 two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Iranian embassy in Bir Hassan (23 dead); the…
- 21 November 2013The Rhosus enters Beirut port with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrateOn 21 November 2013 the Russian-chartered, Moldovan-flagged ship "Rhosus" docked at the port of Beirut, coming from…
- 4 December 2013Assassination of commander Hassan al-LaqqisOn the night of 3–4 December 2013 Hassan al-Laqqis, the Hezbollah cadre in charge of manufacturing and technology, was…
- 27 December 2013Assassination of Mohamad ChatahOn 27 December 2013 the former minister Mohamad Chatah, Saad Hariri's adviser and an opponent of Hezbollah's…
- 29 December 2013The Saudi $3bn grant to the army via France
- 31 December 2013The Jousieh battles settledThroughout December 2013, over 28 days, the gunmen launched intermittent attacks on the party's positions in Jousieh on…