On April 4, 2012, Lebanese forces Leader Samir Geagea escaped an assassination attempt when shots were fired at his residence in Maarab. Investigations are ongoing regarding…
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The decision-maker is trying to kill two birds with one war. The first is neutralizing the threat from the north and the second – returning Iran…
Overview Lebanon’s Sheikh Hassan Mchaymech “disappeared” on July 7, 2010 while crossing the Lebanese-Syrian border in an incident that represents merely the first chapter of a…
Washington must act promptly to ensure that turmoil in Syria does not weaken U.S. allies in neighboring Lebanon. On August 15, a Shiite faction in Lebanon…
(Beirut, August 20, 2012) – The Lebanese authorities should investigate and prosecute those responsible for the reported kidnapping of dozens of Syrian nationals and a Turkish…
Two of Lebanon’s most prominent shiite clerics, Seyyed Mohammed Hassan el Amin and Seyyed Hani Fahs, both from South Lebanon, made an “appeal” to their community…
By supporting the massacres in Syria over the past sixteen months, Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah engendered the hatred of millions of Sunnis next door, who will…
We can take it as a given that for as long as Michel Aoun can take a full breath without the assistance of a respirator, he…
Earlier today, on the 18th anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a busload of Israeli tourists was bombed…
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Lebanese Intelligence sources said that the (presumably Israeli) surveillance drone which had hit ground near the village of Younin, near Baalbeck, in the…
WASHINGTON—Major Wall Street and European financial firms are coming under pressure to dump their holdings in Lebanese debt and securities from activists who charge that Iran,…
Few political debates are more divisive than the one over whether a country is in a civil war. When the killing began in Lebanon in 1975,…
Sheikh H. Mchaymech stands accused of “collaborating with the Israeli enemy by providing information about Hezbollah to its forces in return for pecuniary gains.” In our…
The latest clashes in Beirut show that as long as the Syrian conflict persists, Lebanon’s internal security will be increasingly at risk. The fifteen-month Syrian crisis…
The story of Benin Kataya is a great sign of the relativity in the practice of freedoms in Lebanon. Now if you are living in an…
The fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in recent days has been intimately related to the conflict in next-door Syria. Indeed, all the indications…
The Hezbollah militia is extending its fiber optic telecommunications network to Beirut’s downtown area under the nose of Lebanese authorities (see photo). Sources in Beirut speculated…
The scandal of captagon pills fabricated in Hezbollah religious seminaries (or hawzas) in the city of Baalbek, in Lebanon’s eastern regions, shed a new light on…
It has been a busy few weeks for the Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. On Wednesday he dodged a bullet—in fact two—just days after organizing a…
Given Lebanon’s deep political divisions and traditional subservience to Damascus, the West should not expect too much help from Beirut in resolving the Syria crisis. Since…
[ in-depth ] Between downtown Beirut and Corniche al-Mazraa is a densely populated area where Sunnis, Shiites, and Druze live cheek by jowl. Walk around the…
You have to wonder what the Maronite Church and the Vatican were thinking when they replaced the old but smoothly functioning Nasrallah Sfeir with a malfunctioning…
Hizballah’s response to military action against Iran could be shaped by rational cost-benefit analysis, a perceived spiritual obligation to defend its Shiite patron in Tehran, or…
The following article published by the Iranaian opposition website “ROOZ” does not render justice to Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy to Hizbullah’s secretary genereral Hassan Nasrallah, who…
South Lebanon- This time, the reaction of Lebanon’s Shiite population to Hassan Nasrallah’s new speech on Syria’s insurrection, now in its eleventh month, was open indignation…
This past week several British parliamentarians were in Beirut to learn more about the situation in Lebanon and Syria. They met with politicians, academics and journalists,…
US Sanctions Target Money Laundering Operations in Panama and Colombia Written By Andrew O’Reilly The U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday that it has issued sanctions against…
METransparent Exclusive Beirut sources said that Hizbullah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah met Syria’s Bashar Assad, recently, in Damascus for a three-hour discussion. Immediately after his visit to…
The tendency among many Lebanese today is to deride the Independence Intifada of 2005. This is a result of the high expectations unleashed, then dashed by…
By JO BECKER BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last February, the Obama administration accused one of Lebanon’s famously secretive banks of laundering money for an international cocaine ring…
By JO BECKER BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last February, the Obama administration accused one of Lebanon’s famously secretive banks of laundering money for an international cocaine ring…
ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA’s operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number…
Today, the Asad regime crossed another red line. According to reports from Beirut, Syria dispatched troops into neighboring Lebanon to chase down and shoot eight defecting…
Najah Khalil, in South Lebanon To the memory of its people, the state of insecurity and terror imposed by the Hizbollah militia upon the region of…
Shaffaf Exclusive Exclusive information to Shaffaf reported that Hezbollah arrested five members of its security organs on charges of “collaborating with Israel”, while a top…
by Metransparent correspondent in South Lebanon Najah Khalil More than a year after the Municipal elections, a municipal committee under the name of “Religious Waqf Committee”…
To write that Walid Jumblatt is shifting political direction is a conspicuous waste of perfectly good words. Changeability, we know, is par for the course with…
If reverse had multiple gears, Beshara Rai would be shifting into fourth about now. Since his return from France last weekend, the Maronite patriarch has tried…
The families of Sujud, a locality near Jezzine in South Lebanon, issued a statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of Hezbollah gunmen from their town. According to…
Last week Maronite Patriarch Bcharra Rai made some highly controversial comments from Paris in which he suggested that Bashar Al Assad was an open minded ruler…
The STL recently published the indictment, accusing four Hezbollah members of PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination on February 14, 2005, among other murders. Hezbollah’s General Seceratary Hassan…
For a party that repeats how unconcerned it is with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Hezbollah spends much time showing how concerned it is with the…
Time Magazine, a very credible media source, published an article in which an interview by the Magazine correspondent Nicholas Blanford with one of the four suspects…
Among the more dismal spectacles in an already dismal political landscape is that of Michel Aoun talking about Syria. In the past two weeks, since the…
Read the Full Text: Hezbollah suspects to be tried over Rafik Hariri BBC- A UN-backed tribunal has published charges against four suspects in the assassination of…
What a difference three decades make. In April 1982, I was assigned to be the Beirut correspondent for The Times. Before I arrived, word had filtered…
MEtransparent Exclusive Whoever enters Beirut’s “Dahieh” during the day cannot but notice Hezbollah’s discreet security presence. By nightime, the discreet alert emerges to become a public…
ForeignAffairs.com In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah.…
POLICYWATCH #1833 The recent indictment of senior Hizballah figure Mustafa Badreddine has the group on edge, and for good reason. Among the suspects indicted last month…
Last Saturday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary general, did more to discredit Prime Minister Najib Mikati than did all the sour statements issued by March 14.…