This is the first time a senior US official is willing to discuss the behind-the-scenes events on the day Hezbollah’s…
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As Trump’s second term reshapes global security, can Europe and NATO stand on their own? NATO has been…
Despite well-founded worries about the rise of an Islamist government in Syria, the new rulers cannot be any worse than…
French Senator Claude Malhuret speaks on the Senate floor on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Credit: Public Sénat) By François Diaz-Maurin…
Kuwait has stripped nationality from 42,000 people after suspending the region’s only parliament last year Chloe Cornish in Kuwait City…
The media, which should have known better, are talking about the day after the Gaza war as if it will…
Overview Karim A. Souaid possesses deep expertise in banking regulations, spanning U.S., and Lebanese frameworks. His academic foundation in…
ilLondon – There is an insidious attempt—engineered not by Lebanon’s actual Prime Minister but by the ever-calculating F. Siniora—to install…
Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the dissolution of the PKK and an end to armed struggle presents significant legal, security,…
Brief Analysis Whether authorities call it “Egyptian gas” or “Jordanian gas,” the simple fact is that Israeli offshore supplies…
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations Ambrose…
by Fadi Daoud, Makram Rabah, Efraim Defrin, Assaf Orion https://youtu.be/aX_tkvnFqvc Former military officials and experts from…
LONDON – Lebanon’s financial elites—who have all the fiscal prudence of a drunken sailor on shore leave—are at it again.…
Late Cheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the White House, September 2018. Photo credit: REUTERS. * Trump’s initial foreign policy…
(Author of the Snapback mechanism against Iran in the JCPOA, French Foreign Minister Laurant Fabius) By Oren Setter, Itamar Lifshitz…
Because, as Michel Chiha wrote, sometimes it is necessary to repeat what should be self-evident. Because what ought to be…
The agreement’s implementation phase is going surprisingly well and has been extended, but maintaining the ceasefire will require officials to…
Nawwaf Salam is, depending on your level of cynicism, either cautious, overly cautious, paralyzingly cautious, or just a guy who…
by David Albright and Sarah Burkhard On January 22, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) published an article titled “How…
On May 10, 2017, I sat down for a one-hour roundtable in Beirut with Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon’s Central…
Ah, Hezbollah and the Aounist movement. They must have thought they were sitting pretty, like a kid at the candy…
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him…
Decisive moments in the lives of nations and societies sometimes impose the adoption of extraordinary decisions—decisions that can be considered…
Mr. Former President, There are names that resonate in history as milestones of national pride. And then there are others—names…
Syria has liberated itself from the Assad regime. Israel’s ferocious military campaign against Hezbollah has effectively liberated Lebanon, too. Unlike…
Lebanon proclaimed its independence on November 22, 1943, a quarter of a century after the Ottoman Empire’s collapse and…
(Graveyard of Hassan Nasrallah. 90 feet underground) * Clumsy U.S. Diplomacy Has Undermined Israel’s Battlefield Successes Against Hezbollah and Linked…
Topping the list of reasons for lack of Lebanese interest, all presidential hopefuls need Hezbollah votes …
Ah, Lebanon. The country where everyone has an opinion about everyone else, except their own backyard. It’s truly a marvel…
Lebanese sources confirmed that Lebanese authorities, particularly security forces, took action immediately after reports emerged from media sources regarding…
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries uncovers the systematic displacement and cultural destruction of Syria’s Jewish population, and tells…
At a time when Westerners are questioning the Islamist takeover in Damascus, Sunni Arab treatment of the Assad family’s broader…
Once blocked by Hezbollah’s 100+ missile batteries and Syria’s dense air defenses, Israel overcame these challenges with decoys, advanced drones…
Our sources in South Lebanon predict that Israel will carry out new strikes in Lebanon targeting the remaining Hezbollah…
More than 500 metric tons of a precursor chemical for the nerve agent sarin were removed from Syria and destroyed…
Lebanon’s next president could be elected by a significant majority, though not unanimously. Take Joseph Aoun, the army’s commander-in-chief. With…
Nabih Berri, Lebanon’s Speaker of Parliament, has usurped his public office for far too long. He has used the…
The recent decision by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to halt mandatory military service in Syria after the potential fall of…
This article has been first published in the WSJ in 2011, but its content and message ring true today…
Cities gripped by tyranny and poverty. A fractured country ruled by warlords and factions. A hollowed out middle class…
Once a president is elect in 2025, and whilst the ceasefire is under implementation, and after the fall of the…
I nominate Dr. Fares Souaid for the presidency of Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war and militia dominance have decimated…
Shaffaf Monitor – Given the usual delay by the Church hierarchy in responding to similar crises and the absence of…
There is a campaign of disinformation that Speaker Nabih Berri has started in Lebanon about a ‘secret mandate’ given to…
A meeting, held last week, between “Wafiq Safa”, head of the “Coordination and Liaison Unit” of Hezbollah, and the…
Hundreds of Syrian Intelligence and military officers, plus Assad regime dignitaries, some of whom are subject to U.S. sanctions have…
On 9/11, Sunni Islamism attacked the U.S. and suffered a crushing American response that allowed Iranian Shia Islamism to rise…
Any comment from the Army? * According to “Lebanon 24” website, units of the Lebanese army discovered an arms…
From La Haye in the Netherlands, a friend sent me this advertisement of a new trendy ice-cream named…
Designating Hezbollah’s fallen combatants as “martyrs of the Lebanese Armed Forces” is a disastrous proposition. First, it would be…