A large group of Lebanese politicians have slammed claims by Iran’s Supreme Leader who said recently that Tehran’s the influence in Lebanon must be expanded. …
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The path out of Lebanon’s presidential impasse remains unclear, highlighting the boundaries of Hezbollah’s influence. It has been an uneasy three weeks for Gebran Bassil, since…
Istanbul- Shaffaf After nearly 40 years, a veteran photojournalist, Coşkun Aral, who had followed Civil War in Lebanon for years, uncovers the extraordinary background story of…
We may be nearing the stage where Lebanon can have any president it wants, as long as his last name is Aoun. Lebanon is very much…
Statement October 17, 2022 Saydet El Jabal Gathering held its weekly meeting and issued the following statement: Now that both Lebanon and Israel have…
https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cjr9FrIsZ73/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D NORTHERN AFFAIRS: Ghajar has long been a closed military zone, but 22 years later, Israel suddenly opened it for tourists. By ANNA AHRONHEIM…
Israel preparing for potential escalation in north as Lebanon talks derail Defense Minister Benny Gantz instructs military to increase operational readiness, both offensive and defensive,…
The Iranian occupation of Lebanon will recede and disappear, no doubt, and Lebanon will regain its independence and sovereignty over all its territories. Lebanon’s predicament has…
While the negotiations on the maritime border are progressing, the UN reports increasing aggression from the Iran-backed organization, which managed to upgrade the air defense systems…
While the facts exposed by Jerusalem Post are exact, Lebanese Oppositon sources, including METransparent, believe the whole episode was a Hezbollah-inspired plot, carried out by an…
Iran, through Hezbollah, has invited itself into Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel over offshore gas fields. After Hezbollah flew drones over an Israeli gas rig last week,…
At this point, even if the “interim” force was somehow able and willing to implement its mandate in southern Lebanon, it might not be enough to…
There is no consensus on Lebanon’s next president, and the country is likely to soon enter a long period of stalemate. No sooner had…
The “National Council to End the Iranian Occupation of Lebanon” issued the following appeal on the occasion of the coming parliamentary elections on May 15: …
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with Lebanon. The recent publication of Fouad Ajami’s memoir of his youth in Lebanon…
Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences could be devastating. During the past two years of turmoil…
Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, Israel’s outgoing commander of the 91st Galilee Division, adds however that as the Lebanese crisis deepens, Hezbollah is allowing for a bigger…
Israeli Mossad’s ‘strange’ admission, per Supreme Court president, was made on a petition to disclose materials about Christian militias that massacred Palestinian in the refugee camps…
Syria is being drawn into a de facto coalition that may aim to limit Iran’s reach in the Levant After Saad al-Hariri’s withdrawal from political life last…
الحقيقة الساطعة، أنّ ما يعانيه لبنان هو نتيجة هيمنة وتسلّط إيران عليه. الدولة اللبنانية أصبحت مخطوفة ومرتهنة، ولم تعد هي صاحبة السلطة والنفوذ والقرار الانتخابات النيابية…
(Beirut, 1987: A ceasefire was arranged to allow for the evacuation of those who got killed or injured by Shia Amal’s siege of and war on…
One of the cruelest aspects of the Syrian Civil War was the ethnic cleansing. Every side did it, purging populations of the wrong ethnic or religious…
It is a year ago since Lokman Slim was assassinated in Lebanon. His was the latest in a series of high-profile killings of politicians, journalists, and…
A Lebanese woman burns a poster bearing portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other politicians with Arabic words that read, “You are against achieving justice,”…
Rather than rehabilitating the Assad regime through willful negligence in its sanctions policy, the administration should escalate economic pressure on the Assad regime’s Iranian enablers to…
(بعد تأجيل « إستجواب » الدكتور فارس سعيد، بـتهمة « “إثارة النعرات الطائفية والحرب الاهلية »، يوم الإثنين في ١٣ ديسمبر، سارع الحزب الإيراني إلى رفع دعوى ثانية ضد الدكتور…
Saad al-Hariri may not run in Lebanon’s next elections, but writing him off may be hasty. Rumors have been rife lately that former prime minister…
By encouraging outside powers to have a stake in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s foes may create spaces to contain Iran. For a divided country like Lebanon, foreign involvement…
Dr Fares Souhaid, leader of the multi-confessional Lebanese Opposition front « Likaa Saydet el Jabal », made a n unprecedented appeal to President Michel Aoun to…
Day after day, events confirm that Iran and its allies in the region resort to violence and physical liquidation whenever elections results are not in their…
Maria Maalouf insists Israel isn’t Lebanon’s enemy, and that whatever the Jewish state has done pales by comparison to the havoc Hezbollah and Iran, the ‘bigger…
In a gesture of goodwill, army says residents of three villages allowed into Israeli territory for olive harvest Israel said Monday it was opening its border…
Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper has folded following a years-long financial struggle BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Daily Star, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the Arab world…
(Photo: MP Jamil Sayyed and his close (no less corrupt) friend and Hezbollah Security Chief, Wafiq Safa) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the…
Hezbollah braccio armato dell’Iran in Libano si è opposto alla giustizia due volte. La prima nel 2005, quando ha respinto l’istituzione del Tribunale internazionale per indagare…
Hezbollah faced justice twice, and twice rejected it! First in 2005, when it rejected the International Tribunal to investigate the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik…
A quick comment on Michael young’s An Investigation in Lebanon Has Led to Armed Clashes Reminiscent of the Civil War. (Republished here on Shaffaf) I…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa. What Happened? On October 14, fighting broke out in Beirut between…
Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards celebrate a missile launch When Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire missiles at Tel Aviv, Israel strikes targets in Gaza. When Houthi…
Il Likaa di Sayedat el-jabal ha tenuto la sua riunione settimanale e ha emesso il seguente comunicato: Il silenzio dei deputati della nazione riguardo le…
(photo caption: billboard raised in the shiite village of Brital in Hermel accusing Hezbollah of a series of killings) « The silence of the…
Regional and international actors are accumulating cards to engage in a new Middle Eastern power game. Republicans in Congress have just accused the Biden administration of…
(A phone conversation between French president and Iran’s « unelected » president provided the green light for the formation of a new government headed by Mr.…
The multi-confesstional opposition front, Likaa Saydet al-Jabal, an offshoot of the historic March 14 movement, following its meeting on September 20, issued the following statement:…
What Happened? After more than a year of waiting, Lebanon has a new government. The new prime minister, Najib Mikati, succeeded where his two predecessors, Mustapha…
In a communiqué commenting the formation of a new Lebanese government, Likaa Saydet al-Jabal », an offshoot of the historical March 14 forces and an active…
Only a barbwire separates thriving Israel from free falling Lebanon Lebanon is in free fall. Its economy is in tatters. It has run out of…
BEIRUT (AP) — Driving back to base after firing rockets toward Israeli positions from a border area last month, a group of Hezbollah fighters was accosted…
To make UNIFIL more effective and prevent dangerous destabilization in the south, the Security Council should review the force’s mandate more frequently, reallocate its resources to…
Hezbollah’s actions in the past year and a half have turned many Lebanese against the party. If Hezbollah believes that an essential dimension of its…