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Lebanese citizens are reportedly beginning to discuss normalization with Israel following the crushing blow dealt to the Iran ...
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Political Schizophrenia and What Remains of Hezbollah
We have been accustomed to Hezbollah’s adventurism and siding with the wrong front. It ignores the authority of the Lebanese state, which has been economically devastated and had once been torn apart, ...
Hezbollah hailed Pope Francis' "unequivocal positions calling for an end to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip." ...
On Monday, Firas Maksad — managing director for Middle East and North Africa practice at Eurasia Group, a political risk ...
Hezbollah was formed in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, and has grown to become a formidable rival political and military force within the country. The ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank will grant Lebanon a $250 million loan that will be used to help ease electricity cuts in the crisis-hit country, the country’s finance ministry said Thursday.
Major political parties function as communal power centers, frequently linked to foreign sponsors who tip the internal balance when needed. For decades, Lebanon’s Christians have looked to the ...
Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri tells TNA that Lebanon failed to reconcile after its civil war, leaving sectarian ...
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Lebanon and the ‘Arms Test’
Between Aoun's insistence on the state monopolizing arms and Hezbollah reverting back to its position on maintaining its arms, reproducing its previous taboos and reiterating the notorious threat “to ...
The Sharaa-Salam talks, Salamey added, suggest that both parties are now ... source told UPI. Lebanon has suffered from decades-long Syrian military presence, political domination and manipulation ...