There has been much speculation in Beirut about how to get Lebanon out of its presidential impasse. The focus has been on convincing the main Maronite…
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It has become obvious in recent days that much of the speculation about whether Saad Hariri would order his parliamentary bloc to vote for Michel Aoun…
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Middle East Report N°15327 May 2014 Read Full Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Lebanese Shiite armed movement Hizbollah has gone all-in for Syrian President…
Stewart Bell A photo allegedly of Hezbollah commander Fawzi Ayoub, who has been killed. TORONTO — Fawzi Ayoub was a hijacker, international terrorist operative and senior…
Last week, Lebanon’s parliament convened for the first round of balloting to elect a new president. While Samir Geagea — who leads the Christian “Lebanese Forces”…
Should the citizens of Lebanon applaud a U.S.-Iran agreement even if it consolidates Iran’s Hezbollah proxies who have almost taken over the institutions of their state?…
Samir Geagea has declared his candidacy for the Lebanese presidential election, launching a thousand speculations. The Lebanese Forces leader has pushed his allies into a corner,…
The recent denigration of President Michel Sleiman by Ibrahim Amin, the editor of Al-Akhbar, is part of Hezbollah’s larger fight over the presidency. As a consequence,…
Summary Lebanon’s small geographic size and population belie the important role it has long played in the security, stability, and economy of the Levant and the…
Weekly Standard Lee Smith interviews Washington Institute fellow Matthew Levitt on Hezbollah’s internal workings and international reach. Six years ago Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated…
Apparently, a girl who exposes her breasts can agitate some Lebanese much more than a man who clubs his wife to death. Lebanese alpine skier Jackie…
Remember a few years ago when Iranian officials had to intervene to prevent Hezbollah gunmen from turning on their Syrian patrons? Few people do. Today, the…
Roi Kais Next week, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will convene to adjudicate in the matter of the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, the…
Times of Israel Since the end of the July 2006 war, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah has given nearly all his public speeches from the safety of…
By ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT BEIRUT, Lebanon — Amid the chaos of Syria’s civil war, Hezbollah has been moving long-range missiles to Lebanon from bases…
Editor’s note: Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese finance minister, wrote the following open letter last week to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani. Chatah was killed by a…
Saturday evening, while walking in Sassine Square, I came upon a nauseating scene. Two young men had gotten out of their car and were furiously punching…
CNN Global Public Square The November 19 double suicide bombings of the Iranian embassy in Beirut may have looked shocking in the headlines — they killed…
This week Sunni and Shia Muslims ushered in the Islamic New Year and the beginning of the holy month of Muharram. For Shias, the month also…
Reading the bulletins of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, it seems that about the only thing the institution has not done until now among its parallel…
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) – In the photograph the two robed men stand shoulder-to-shoulder, one tall and erect, the other more heavyset. Both smile for…
If the group’s standing in Lebanon continues to implode, the country might cease to be the comfortable home for Hezbollah fugitives it has been for decades.…
New Statesman Hezbollah retaliation could include firing rockets at Israel or executing terrorist attacks on Western and Israeli interests via the group’s formidable global networks. The…
DOWNLOAD PDF The following is an excerpt from Ambassador Hof’s prepared remarks at a September 3 Washington Institute Policy Forum. To read his full remarks, download…
8/22/2013 Action Targets Hizballah’s Leadership Responsible for Operations Outside of Lebanon WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four members of Hizballah’s leadership…
Recent street battles, bombings, and political defections mark the beginning of the end of Hezbollah’s relative impunity in Lebanon, potentially heralding protracted violence. On July 9,…
In mid-December 2012, President Obama in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters tried to explain US policy toward the Syrian revolution, saying “Not everybody who’s participating…
Today, 9 June 2013, members of INTIMAA, a group of Lebanese Shia opposed to Hezbollah policies arrived to the Iranian embassy to hold a sit-in to…
Hezbollah’s flagrant intervention in Syria calls into question the crucial concepts of the nation-state, its sovereignty and decision making-powers over national security and social relations within…
With the bloodshed occurring in Syria, Hezbollah decided to help the Syrian regime in the fight against the Free Syrian army. Most of the Hezbollah fighters…
Hezbollah’s commitment to the Syrian conflict will likely change the course of the war. On May 25, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah made what amounts to a…
Owen Bowcott and Ian Black Appeal court judges agreed to the release of documents in the dispute between the Saudi princes and a Jordanian former business…
Netanyahu and the IDF Spokesman were fast to condemn the launch of the drone from Lebanon, but chose not to name Hezbollah as the culprit. A…
Khatoun Haidar The fate of Lebanon is uncertain. I can feel a cold wind that reminds me of 1975, the official start of the Lebanese Civil…
It was to be expected that Kholoud and Nidal’s civil marriage adventure in Lebanon, with the aid of a former leftist, would be accompanied by a…
I could not believe the words blasted on the radio. Mufti Kabbani was literary excommunicating any Lebanese Sunni politician who approves institutionalizing voluntary civil marriage in…
Kafkaesque is the only adjective I can think off when hearing what the major Christians parties -with the blessing of the Maronite Patriarch- are proposing to…
Simon Henderson U.S.-brokered efforts to untangle the maritime knot between the three countries could boost natural gas exploration. Talks in Beirut today between Lebanese president Michel…
Lebanon has a long history of muddling through, and it may do so again unless Syrian violence reignites sectarian tensions in the perennially troubled state. *…
The reverberations of the Kuwait bombings still ring loud three decades later, and the threat from Iran and Hezbollah is greater today than it was even…
Not only is discussion of settlement of the Palestinian refugees currently within the Lebanese borders taboo, since 1990 it has also been unconstitutional. DOWNLOAD PDF “In…
Middle East Report N°13222 Nov 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Syria’s conflict is leaking out of its borders, but in few places are risks higher than…
Although Syria has long been a vexing policy issue for the United States, intervening after the election to help end the Assad regime should not be…
Three days before his murder, Gen. Wissam al-Hassantold me in a telephone interview from France that his contacts with the Syrian opposition put him “under a…
Weekly Standard Hezbollah’s days of dominating Lebanon are likely numbered, and the militia’s recent behavior suggests that it sees the writing on the wall. ****************************** To…
Hizbollah has been accused of intervening directly in Syria’s civil war by launching rocket attacks over the border from Lebanon in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s…
There has been talk recently of the Middle East witnessing an expansion of radicalism in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Lebanon, for decades, has been…
MET (Shaffaf) Exclusive Two successive bad news for Lebanon’s pro Iran Hezbollah party. Yesterday, Wednesday, METranparent revealed on its arabic page the defection of the commander…
IHS Jane’s Hizbullah’s use of criminal activity to raise funds, procure arms, and provide logistics is part of the secret to the success of its military…
By Asrat Seyoum The world’s prominent whistleblower website, Wikileaks’s, latest release revealed that the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that went down shortly after taking-off from Beirut’s…