EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security deterioration in southern Lebanon due to…
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How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into reviving a corpse? When can you, or are allowed to, try…
Beirut’s deceptive narrative is part of a general Arab and Palestinian style Describing Israeli retaliation to Palestinian and Lebanese attacks as an “Israeli aggression” has…
A former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs diagnoses the country’s incapacitated institutions and prescribes remedies for its entrenched corruption and Iranian/Hezbollah domination. …
I know you pity us, but we can’t take it anymore… your pity. It is true that you come back with a bowl of fresh air,…
The Hariri tribunal hasn’t led to a single arrest, so Washington should let it expire and help the Lebanese people in better ways. Following the…
What Happened? Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Saad al-Hariri, has announced he would withdraw from the government-formation process, after trying unsuccessfully for nine months to put together a cabinet. Under the Lebanese…
Hezbollah may accept a new government, but would be as pleased if the country’s social and political order crumbled. The government-formation process has once again…
Although continued pressure on the country’s political elites is necessary, the U.S. government needs to find more immediate ways of helping soldiers and citizens by making…
Natasha Turak@NATASHATURAK KEY POINTS “I assert that there has been no sincere and clear position with regards to neutrality from Hezbollah,” Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi told…
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the Shebaa Farms. Frederic Hof is a diplomat in residence at…
Whoever winds up spearheading the reconstruction effort, Washington should stay on top of them to ensure that international prerequisites for reform and monitoring are enforced—and to…
Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, addresses thousands of Lebanese at Bkerke, north of Beirut, Feb. 27, 2021, as Lebanon teeters on the verge of collapse. “Do…
On March 15, 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with the head of the Hizbullah parliamentary faction Muhammad R’ad. The Russian Foreign…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa. What Happened? Lebanese President Michel Aoun and prime minister-designate Saad…
For Moscow, Lebanon, a strategic country on the Mediterranean, is an important extension of Putin’s Syria interests. In the backdrop of Russian police rounding up…
Israel has carried out dozens of attacks against Iranian ships throughout the Middle East, a report in Maariv claimed on Friday. According to the story…
Is Hezbollah undermining its resistance by failing to address Lebanon’s many crises, as the late Anis Naccash implied? Often, the hardest truths come from those…
He was not anti-Hezbollah or Iran he was a pro free and democratic Lebanon. Never served anyone’s agenda other than Lebanon’s interest according to his own…
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN February 4, 2021 Assassination of Lebanese Activist Lokman Slim The United States condemns the heinous assassination of prominent Lebanese activist…
Lebanese activist and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim. (Twitter) The death of Shia anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim was not a random killing. It was a cold-blooded execution. The activist…
Rioting has rocked Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli for four straight nights, with protesters torching the provincial government headquarters and targeting the homes of leading politicians …
(a poster raised in Beirut center: « they pretended we were many peoples, it turns out we are only one »!) The following quick remarks are…
Relatives of victims of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion hold portraits of their loved ones killed during the explosion, during a vigil at the seaport…
A reliable new public opinion poll conducted in Lebanon, completed just three weeks ago, offers the first solid proof that grass-roots support for Hezbollah has declined…
The late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden famously said, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the…
When the “October 17th” (2019) Revolution erupted in Lebanon, it included all (religious) communities and age groups. No political party was spared popular criticism- a clear…
A Biden administration may bring crisis-ridden Lebanon a reprieve, even if some things will remain the same. The election of Joe Biden has led to…
Shaffaf invites its readers to view Duki Dror’s documentary at ARTE channel, on November 17, 20.30. https://youtu.be/tXVk5Q_3rwo * LEBANON – BORDERS OF BLOOD Format:…
The US envoy to Lebanon said on Monday that head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement MP Gebran Bassil, who has been sanctioned by the United States,…
Gibran Bassil peaks with lawmaker Ziad Asswad, center, a member of his parliament bloc, at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon. (File/AP) …
Treasury Targets Corruption in Lebanon November 6, 2020 Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Gibran Bassil…
(photo caption: Hezbollah pro-Iran militia invaded the Lebanese capital on May 7, 2008) First – On the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons A – Request…
The clay soil of the “Labouneh” area, which overlooks the Lebanese and Israeli sides of the border, allowed Hezbollah to establish an unknown tunnels network, extending…
In an interview, Michael Karam speaks about a new documentary on wine and war in Lebanon. Michael Karam is a British-born Lebanese wine writer and journalist.…
A Beirut source revealed to METransparent that an « official convoy » seen at Beirut’s Port immediately after the terrible August 4 explosion had, in fact,…
Sources in Beirut tell METransparent that the Janah area, near Beirut, where PM Netanyahu had claimed, at his UN speech on September 29, that Hezbollah had…
The group is once more trying to conceal its strategy of hiding military assets in civilian areas, but each self-explosion and Israeli exposure reveals more about…
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanon’s leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead…
Because Iranian-sponsored militias in Iraq forge real estate deeds and threaten judges and government employees who challenge their forgery, my father sold our family house in…
In Ba‘lbek-Hermel, there was support for the Lebanese uprising until the main Shi‘a parties gained the upper hand. From the start of Lebanon’s uprising in…
The response to Lebanon’s protest movement in Zahleh showed sympathy, but within a conservative framework. Many Lebanese regard the city of Zahleh with a mix…
By Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick A Lebanese man convicted in the 2005 killing of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri was part of a dedicated hit squad…
Conservative Republicans have unveiled a report that could have terrible consequences for a country already facing ruin. Lebanon will have to pay close attention to a report released…
On June 4, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Maroun Hitti, Jessica Obeid, and Sami Nader. Hitti served until recently as special defense…
Writing in the Lebanese daily Al-Liwa under the headline “France’s Ambassador in Beirut – The Diplomat Marketing Iran’s Hegemony Over Lebanon,” political analyst Ahmad Fahed Al-Ayoubi attacked…
BERLIN – Germany’s interior ministry on Thursday outlawed all of Hezbollah activities within the Federal Republic, boosting the chances of a European-wide ban on the U.S.-designated Lebanese terrorist entity. …
The emergency rescue program revealed by Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on April 30 purports to address comprehensively Lebanon’s economic collapse. While tabled in more desperate…
The party’s rejection of an IMF bailout may ultimately mean the end of Hassan Diab’s government, and of Lebanon itself. On February 25, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary…