The Christians of Hezbollah
In the political culture of Lebanon, usually recognized for its maze-like complexity, the alliance between the Iranian-backed Hezbollah armed group and the predominantly Christian Free Patriotic...
View ArticleThe March to War against Syria: The Long Shadow of the 2006 Israeli War on...
Syria has been on the Pentagon's drawing board for years, largely because of its important geo-strategic placement in the Middle East. The process of cornering the Syrian Arab Republic started with...
View ArticleWhat next for Hezbollah, Israel, Syria and Iran?
In a turbulent and rapidly-changing region, Hezbollah finds itself facing an unprecedented array of threats and challenges. Will it be fatally weakened if its strategic ally, the Syrian regime,...
View ArticleWith Hezbollah coffins, Syria now exporting conflict
HERMEL, Lebanon (Reuters) - On a country road in Lebanon's northeast, traffic is heavy; ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hezbollah brings wounded...
View ArticleIran: Staying in Power Trumps Nuclear Ambitions
The only way the clerical regime in Iran will meet the demands of the P5+1 to end its nuclear enrichment program and comply with the International Atomic and Energy Agency (IAEA) requirements of...
View ArticlePope visits a still-divided Lebanon
AFP - When Pope Benedict XVI comes to Lebanon this week he will find a different country than the one his predecessor, John Paul II, visited 15 years ago. But one thing remains unchanged, Lebanon is...
View ArticleLebanon's complex history
Over the centuries, the region of modern-day Lebanon has been the territory of the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, Persians, the Roman Empire, Arabs, Egyptians, the Ottoman Empire and France, before...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Election Seasons "Bordering" Syria's Flames
Elections in the Middle East have become a blood-spattered means of exclusion that voids democracy of its core values, as well as a blatant way to monopolize the hold on power. From Egypt to Iran,...
View ArticleHezbollah continues backing Assad in Syria
The Shiite Hezbollah are fighting alongside regime troops in Syria. Much is at stake for the militant group: if Assad's regime falls, Hezbollah will be weakened in Lebanon. The number of Hezbollah...
View ArticleChristian Hezbollah ally says target of attempted killing
AFP - A key Lebanese Christian ally of the Shiite Hezbollah movement, Michel Aoun, said he was targeted by an assassination attempt Saturday night after local media reported his convoy came under...
View Article‘Fearful voters will keep Assad in power’
BEIRUT - President Bashar al-Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then, said the deputy leader of Lebanon's...
View ArticleBeirut ought to heal divisions
The murder in Beirut this month of Wissam Al Hassan, a spymaster in a den of regional intrigue, was not just another assassination — one more in a sanguinary sequence the Lebanese have learnt to shrug...
View ArticleFearful Syrian voters will keep Assad in power: Qassem
By Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then,...
View ArticleSyria captive rift: Iran defiant, Hezbollah silent
BEIRUT — It took just minutes for Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah chief to appear on TV to silence protests after Syrian rebels grabbed 11 Lebanese Shiites in May. Tehran's leadership also went into...
View ArticleSyria's Close Allies Debate Response
By FARNAZ FASSIHI and MARIA ABI-HABIB in Beirut and JAY SOLOMON in Reyhanli, Turkey CONNECT Iran and the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah are debating whether to retaliate on behalf of...
View ArticleNasrallah's lifeline to Tehran under threat as Assad teeters
Line of supply ... Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, left, chats with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before an official dinner in Damascus in...
View ArticleBeating the Drums of a Broader US-NATO Middle East War
Share By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The Levant could be the starting point of a major international conflict with global ramifications and which could quickly spin out of control. Such a conflict could...
View ArticleThe long, tumultuous history of Syria’s military and political influence in...
BEIRUT — Syria has a long and tumultuous history of meddling into Lebanese affairs. For much of the past 30 years, the seven-times-smaller Lebanon has lived under Syrian military and political...
View ArticleAoun seeks to stir sympathy of Lebanese people: They tried to kill me in...
BEIRUT - A key Lebanese Christian ally of the Shiite Hezbollah movement, Michel Aoun, said he was targeted by an assassination attempt Saturday night after local media reported his convoy came under...
View ArticleSyria war puts anti-US alliance on the defensive
Click photo to enlarge FILE -- In this Thursday February 25, 2010 file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, speaks with Syrian...
View ArticleKeystone Influence: Syria's Arab Spring and the Race for Regional Hegemony
The Arab Spring is changing the political and strategic map of the Middle East as we know it in ways that will persist for decades to come. Notwithstanding the domestic developments in each country,...
View ArticleBitter memories stir Tehran
By Alireza Nader Iran has mixed feelings and conflicting interests in the Syrian crisis. Tehran has a strategic interest in opposing chemical weapons due to its own horrific experience during the...
View ArticleSermons on Syria fan Mideast sectarian flames
BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) - Sunni Muslim preachers condemned Iran and its "Satanic" Shi'ite allies in Friday sermons after a battle in Syria that has inflamed sectarian rhetoric which risks spreading...
View ArticleTehran: No Squandering Any Bargaining Chips When It Comes to Syria and...
There is no harm in this being a short phase of rest to catch one's breath for each of the United States, Russia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the condition that...
View ArticleWhy Hezbollah Loves the U.S.-Iran Nuke Deal
BEIRUT -- American allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia haven't been shy about criticizing the proposed deal over Iran's nuclear program. But one surprising party has come out in favor of a...
View ArticleSyria threatens Hezbollah's Shiite-Sunni concord
Dark days: Rising Sunni Islamist militancy in Lebanon, seen here during a protest in Tripoli, has H Photo: Reuters Photo: Reuters Washington: Two years ago, who'd have thought that graffiti scrawled on...
View ArticleIran deal could shake up Middle East after generations of conflict
Nuclear deal with Iran presents chance of change in alliances and rivalries that have dominated the region's politics Under Rouhani Tehran’s clerical regime might now see the benefit of negotiating...
View ArticleObama Responded to the Desire of Iran and Russia in Victory
The contours of the Grand Bargain between the United States and Russia are becoming clearer as the the two countries are reassuming equal seats in maturing the deal. It is now also clear and evident...
View ArticleFearful Syrian voters will keep Assad in power - Qassem
BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then, said the deputy leader of Lebanon's...
View ArticleLebanon profile
A chronology of key events: 1516-1918 - Lebanon part of the Ottoman Empire. 1920 September - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater...
View ArticleA Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon?
Ain el Helweh camp, Lebanon It’s not just the leadership of the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine, six decades after the 1948 Nakba, that appears to be salivating at the current stoking of...
View ArticleA new 'Green Line' for Lebanon?
- In just one week last month, two explosions in Lebanon's capital killed 12 people and wounded more than 100 more. One car bomb targeting Lebanon's Western-backed political bloc went off on December...
View ArticlePressures Mount for a Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon
Monday, 13 January 2014, 12:28 pm Article: Ain el Helweh camp, Lebanon It isn’t just the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine six decades after the Nakba; one can sense the carnivorous drooling...
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