BEIRUT: Both Hezbollah and Israel have assumed a position of mutual deterrence since the 2006 war, avoiding large clashes and maintaining relative quiet along the shared border. Over the past eight years, however, a series of incidents have put the U.N.'s fragile 2006 peace pact to the test, with a quiet calculus of tit-for-tat acts of violence and sabotage.
Feb. 12, 2008: Senior Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh assassinated in a car bomb in Damascus. Hezbollah accuses Israel of being behind the attack.
July 7, 2008: Cypriot officials arrest a Lebanese-born Swede and member of Hezbollah for allegedly plotting attacks on Israeli tourists.
July 16, 2008: Hezbollah returns the bodies of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for release of five Lebanese prisoners and 199 bodies of Lebanese citizens.
Aug. 9, 2010: Hezbollah releases footage it said was intercepted from Israeli drones tracing routes used by former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri the day before he was killed in a 2005 car bomb.
July 18, 2012: Bus carrying Israeli tourists explodes in Bulgaria. Bulgarian officials accuse Hezbollah of committing the attack.
Oct. 6, 2012: Hezbollah flies drone 35 miles into Israel.
Jan. 13, 2013: Israel jets strike “convoy of trucks” in Syria near Lebanon border supposedly carrying Hezbollah weapons.
May 3-4, 2013: Israeli jets strike targets near Damascus, said to target stores of Hezbollah missiles.
Dec. 4, 2013: Hezbollah commander Hassan Lakkis assassinated in Beirut. Hezbollah blames Israel.
Feb. 24, 2014: Israel bombs Hezbollah position in east Lebanon supposedly targeting weapons shipment from Syria.
March 18, 2014: Blast at Israeli army post in occupied Shebaa Farms wounded 4 Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah later claims responsibility.
Sept. 4, 2014: Hezbollah explosives expert Hussein Ali Haidar killed while attempting to defuse Israel spy device. Hezbollah accuses Israel of detonating it remotely.
Oct. 14, 2014: Hezbollah detonates explosive device in occupied Shebaa farms, wounding two Israeli soldiers, in retaliation for the Sept. 4 blast.
Jan. 15, 2015: Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah admits a Mossad spy had infiltrated the party.
Jan. 18, 2015: Israeli strike in Qunaitra, Syria killed an Iranian general and six Hezbollah fighters including Jihad Mughniyeh, son of late Imad Mughniyeh.
Jan. 28, 2015: Hezbollah hits Israeli convoy in occupied Shebaa farms, killing two soldiers in deadliest attack since 2006.
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