Ah, Lebanon. The country where everyone has an opinion about everyone else, except their own backyard. It’s truly a marvel…
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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…
Russia is evacuating naval assets from its base in Tartus, Syria, which may suggest that Russia does not intend to…
So called “warning missiles” against Israeli violations in Lebanon, or, rather, against military attacks on Syrian army and Iranian…
Syria | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 682 There was a time, not so long ago, when Syria – the…
Diwan As with Lebanon’s other sects, has Hezbollah’s hubris brought devastating sectarian nemesis? One of the questions emerging from…
In a brief interview, “Shaffaf” asked Dr. Ahmad Fatfat, former Member of Parliament for the “Dinnieh” region in northern…
On November 15, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts announced that the Assembly has selected three individuals…
COMMENTARY: The greatest hope of the people of Rmeish is to live in peace. Israel and Hezbollah have other priorities.…
In a significant shift of tone, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman took a harder stance on Israel at…
Ahmad Alamolhoda, the firebrand Friday imam of Mashhad, marked the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 hostage crisis by boasting that…
(An Anopheles-arabiensis mosquito, a known vector for the transmission of malaria, obtains a blood meal through its labrum.) In…
Modest American Diplomacy Is the Best Way Forward—for Now The Middle East is where clever foreign policy initiatives…
ROME – In February 2014, a scene unfolded in Rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of…
Emmanuel Macron’s approach to Lebanon has descended into a series of commercial scandals, notably involving maritime and gas concessions with…
Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret…
The United States, France, and the European Union have failed in their efforts to pressure the Lebanese leaders who currently…
(Brilliant analysis which ending with a worrying conclusion: “distancing the Radwan unit.. preventing Hezbollah’s rearmament….. Hezbollah still exists, it is…
Israel’s campaign has greatly diminished Hezbollah, presenting a chance for Beirut to end the war and push back against…
In the span of a week—with the death of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, and Iran’s…
Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza,…
(An Israel-Lebanon truce eroded in the late 1960s, and the border conflict is now marked by constant Hezbollah attacks.) *…
Monika Borgmann I wish I could tell you…#LokmanSlim Lokman Slim was assassinated by Hezbollah
“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade…
Lebanese militant group has held back on using some of its most advanced weapons as it strikes Israel …
Two weeks ago, after yet another boy from Lod was murdered, I finally decided to buy the book “Children…
The Gulf states were right about the Houthi threat and the West was wrong, so another large-scale confrontation is inevitable.…
WORTHY TALK By Henri Curiel A militia can harass a regular army, it can cause it serious pain, inflict specific…
(Kuwait oil ministry’s map showing the Arash/Durra oil and gas field near the tip of the Persian Gulf.) * …
İkra Kuyumcu, 23, graduated with honors from the air force academy, Ebru Eroğlu, 24, from the land forces academy and…