Ties between Iraq and Lebanon show how fragile regional states tend to strengthen each other’s dysfunctions. When Iraq agreed in 2021 to supply Lebanon with heavy fuel…
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Cynthia O’Murchu in London and Raya Jalabi in Beirut Sanctioned-listed charities linked to Hizbollah have routinely instructed donors to direct financial transfers through Lebanese digital payments providers…
In-Depth Reports Pursuing even incremental steps will be difficult in a country long dominated by Iran’s chief regional proxy, but the two countries’ leaders have…
There will be no peace, no sovereignty, and no reconstruction for postwar Lebanon absent the confiscation of Hezbollah weapons. At the Sharm El-Sheikh signing…
COMMENTARY: To call for peace in Lebanon, much less for ‘positive and active neutrality,’ is to signal clear opposition to the perpetual war and revolution axis.…
A video clip that circulated this year on social media in Lebanon shows a man in a car, playing two roles: a driving instructor and a student. It’s…
Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carried out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, on Sunday, May 21, 2023.…
(Former foes in the community are realigning, many rallying around Saudi Arabian sponsorship.) To honor the mufti of the republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, in…
Israeli spies infiltrated the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut under fire, planting devices that guided airstrikes that killed Hassan Nasrallah, top commanders and hundreds of fighters, in…
The government’s unprecedented decision to disarm Hezbollah is brave, but as U.S. officials have repeatedly discovered, continual pressure will be needed to ensure that Lebanon and…
Construction work on an Israeli outpost in southern Lebanon on July 31, 2025. Barak Ravid The Trump administration has asked Israel to reduce “non-urgent” military action in…
By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents…
Welcome aboard MEA—where the tickets cost a fortune, the service feels like a throwback to the Cold War, and the only thing flying higher than…
Friday’s operation is equivalent of the Moked June 5, 1967 attack! We would have lost the element of surprise had we waited until today! …
Hezbollah, which has been nurtured over the years by Iran to assist it in the event of an Israeli attack, has been forced to remain outside…
Six years into a financial free-fall worthy of a Greek tragedy, this country has turned collapse into kabuki theater—complete with port explosions, fuel-smuggling joyrides, and artisanal…
Lebanon and Syria have gone through major changes recently, but tensions remain between the two countries. At the end of 2024, there were major political…
“I’m very upbeat about the potential for an Abraham Accord with Syria and Lebanon,” the ambassador said. Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter…
The Lebanese front is witnessing a military escalation as Israeli airstrikes continue to hit areas in the south and east, even reaching the southern suburbs of…
Given their deep historical and present-day coordination, Beirut needs to change its mindset of treating these groups separately and formulate a unified strategy for disarming them…
The agreement has withstood all challenges so far, thanks in large part to the mechanism that Israel and the United States set up to ensure…
pril 13, 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the formal start of the Lebanese Civil War. That day, Palestinian gunmen shot up civilians coming out of…
Israel’s new doctrine in Lebanon: Provoke us, and the consequences will be severe • After months of strikes, Hezbollah is silent, fearing retaliation Israel and…
Hezbollah’s recent military defeat and the 2022 Israel-Lebanon maritime agreement mediated by Washington have enabled exploration in a distant corner of Israel’s exclusive economic zone.…
This is the first time a senior US official is willing to discuss the behind-the-scenes events on the day Hezbollah’s pagers exploded. October 17,…
by Fadi Daoud, Makram Rabah, Efraim Defrin, Assaf Orion https://youtu.be/aX_tkvnFqvc Former military officials and experts from Lebanon and Israel discuss how Beirut’s…
The agreement’s implementation phase is going surprisingly well and has been extended, but maintaining the ceasefire will require officials to resolve the issues in dispute and…
Nawwaf Salam is, depending on your level of cynicism, either cautious, overly cautious, paralyzingly cautious, or just a guy who triple-checks the expiration date on bottled…
On May 10, 2017, I sat down for a one-hour roundtable in Beirut with Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank as part of a broader…
Ah, Hezbollah and the Aounist movement. They must have thought they were sitting pretty, like a kid at the candy store. The first shock to their…
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and…
Decisive moments in the lives of nations and societies sometimes impose the adoption of extraordinary decisions—decisions that can be considered as “revolutionary” in defense of their…
Mr. Former President, There are names that resonate in history as milestones of national pride. And then there are others—names that cling like indelible stains on…
Syria has liberated itself from the Assad regime. Israel’s ferocious military campaign against Hezbollah has effectively liberated Lebanon, too. Unlike Syria, however, Lebanon hasn’t yet internalized…
Lebanon proclaimed its independence on November 22, 1943, a quarter of a century after the Ottoman Empire’s collapse and the French landing in Beirut, thus…
(Graveyard of Hassan Nasrallah. 90 feet underground) * Clumsy U.S. Diplomacy Has Undermined Israel’s Battlefield Successes Against Hezbollah and Linked Lebanon’s Political Fate with Syria …
Topping the list of reasons for lack of Lebanese interest, all presidential hopefuls need Hezbollah votes Lebanon is not serious about enforcing…
Ah, Lebanon. The country where everyone has an opinion about everyone else, except their own backyard. It’s truly a marvel of human nature: talk all day…
Lebanese sources confirmed that Lebanese authorities, particularly security forces, took action immediately after reports emerged from media sources regarding the potential transfer of funds from…
Once blocked by Hezbollah’s 100+ missile batteries and Syria’s dense air defenses, Israel overcame these challenges with decoys, advanced drones and precision strikes, restoring air dominance…
Our sources in South Lebanon predict that Israel will carry out new strikes in Lebanon targeting the remaining Hezbollah weapon storage and missile launching sites…
Lebanon’s next president could be elected by a significant majority, though not unanimously. Take Joseph Aoun, the army’s commander-in-chief. With the (unfortunately) necessary backing of the…
Nabih Berri, Lebanon’s Speaker of Parliament, has usurped his public office for far too long. He has used the Syrian regime of Hafez and till…
This article has been first published in the WSJ in 2011, but its content and message ring true today as it was then, especially with…
Once a president is elect in 2025, and whilst the ceasefire is under implementation, and after the fall of the Asad regime in Syria, and with…
I nominate Dr. Fares Souaid for the presidency of Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war and militia dominance have decimated rational political discourse, reducing politics to…
There is a campaign of disinformation that Speaker Nabih Berri has started in Lebanon about a ‘secret mandate’ given to him by the US (obviously, not…
A meeting, held last week, between “Wafiq Safa”, head of the “Coordination and Liaison Unit” of Hezbollah, and the Lebanese Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun,…
Hundreds of Syrian Intelligence and military officers, plus Assad regime dignitaries, some of whom are subject to U.S. sanctions have managed to reach Beirut with the…
Any comment from the Army? * According to “Lebanon 24” website, units of the Lebanese army discovered an arms and missiles depot belonging to “Hezbollah”…