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Lebanon and Syria Seek Rapprochement Amid Lingering Distrust

Samar el Kadi, 22/01 16:00 - Reading : 10 minute(s)

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Since the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in December 2024, Lebanon and Syria have been in the process of rebuilding trust and repairing relations. The challenging endeavor, supported by Saudi Arabia with Washington’s backing, follows decades of recriminations and Lebanon’s former subjugation under Syria’s Baathist rule. Syria did not ...

The Unraveling of Hezbollah’s Strategic Myth

Marwan El Amine, 22/01 15:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Since its inception, Hezbollah has sought to transform Shia identity in Lebanon from a national one into an ideological one, anchored in Iran’s Wilayat al-Faqih doctrine of absolute loyalty to its supreme leader. Yet its attempts to tighten control over the Shia community through Tehran’s political ideology met significant obstacles, pushing ...

Israel Strikes Buildings in South Lebanon Towns

This is Beirut, 21/01 18:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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On Wednesday, following earlier strikes in Zahrani, additional Israeli airstrikes targeted buildings in the south Lebanon towns of Jarjouaa, Qenarrit, and Kfour. The Israeli army carried out the attacks aiming to impair alleged Hezbollah military infrastructure. Prior to the strikes, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee released an ...

Amid U.S. Military Build-Up, What Comes Next for Iran and the Region?

Shelby Weiss, 21/01 15:50 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

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Washington is signaling it may take action against Iran amid its increasingly deadly crackdown on nationwide protests that began on December 28. This is Beirut spoke with analysts about the dramatic events unfolding in Iran and their ripple effects on the region, after reports show a significant U.S. military buildup is underway in the Middle ...

As Border Threats Evolve, Israel Turns to New Technologies

Seth J. Frantzman , 21/01 15:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Even though Israel may have militarily weakened Hamas and Hezbollah, it must still contend with increasingly complex and non-traditional security threats along every front, underscoring that today’s borders and battlefields are interconnected in ways that were once unimaginable. On January 7, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced that it ...

Two dead in Israeli strikes on Lebanon

This is Beirut, 21/01 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israeli strikes in south Lebanon killed two people on Wednesday, authorities said, as Israel said it targeted operatives from militant group Hezbollah. Israel has kept up regular strikes in Lebanon despite the November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, usually saying it is targeting members of the ...

Israel Won the War, So Why Is the Muslim Brotherhood Winning the Peace?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 20/01 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The new regional order taking shape appears to be a haunting inversion of the post-9/11 era. At the time, the U.S. smashed Sunni powers, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, incidentally empowering Iran and its sprawling proxy network. Washington even called Shia Islamism the more “reasonable” alternative and partnered with Tehran against ...

Why Lebanon’s Shia Opposition Sees Opportunity in the 2026 Elections

Claudia Groeling, 19/01 15:41 - Reading : 11 minute(s)

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Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections are shaping up as a test of Hezbollah’s political standing at a moment of vulnerability, after the group suffered a major military blow in the 2024 war with Israel and faces mounting pressure from the Lebanese government’s pledge to disarm it nationwide. Since the 1992 parliamentary elections, the ...

Israel Strikes Southern Lebanon

This is Beirut, 19/01 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel struck southern Lebanon on Monday, shortly after the Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, announced that Israeli forces were striking Hezbollah targets in the area. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that one was wounded in the airstrike in the town of Zabqin in the Tyre district. According ...

Naim Kassem Slams Lebanon’s Foreign Minister

This is Beirut, 17/01 20:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Kassem on Saturday sharply criticized Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, accusing him of “acting against the presidency, the government, the Lebanese people, and the resistance.” In a speech during a religious ceremony, Kassem said the absence of an effective foreign minister had ...

Who are the Shia Opposition Seeking to Break Hezbollah’s Stranglehold?

Claudia Groeling, 16/01 19:29 - Reading : 9 minute(s)

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Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections, coming on the heels of the 2024 Hezbollah–Israel war that devastated the organization and its core constituencies, have reopened the question of Shia political representation. For decades, Lebanese political discourse has treated the Shia community as a unified political bloc, electorally ...

Israel Kills Hezbollah Operative: South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 16/01 14:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Israeli army announced on Friday the assassination of a Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon following strikes in the area on Thursday and Friday. Spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X that the Israeli army launched a strike in the eastern Zawtar area in the Nabatieh district on Thursday and "eliminated a Hezbollah ...

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