On March 09, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem gave his first lengthy interview to Manar Sabbagh from Al Manar, Hezbollah’s satellite TV station, after assuming his post. Qassem’s predecessor,...
Tensions have once again flared along Syria’s western border with Lebanon, following intense clashes in February when the newly formed Syrian army deployed reinforcements to Al Qusayr in western...
With Hezbollah sidelined, both Israelis and Lebanese must start thinking beyond security and cease-fire arrangements and start saying the word peace, louder and louder. The more the P word is uttered, the more normal it becomes
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After a two-year vacancy, Lebanon finally has a president. On January 9, Joseph Aoun was swept into office as its fourteenth holder to Lebanese and international acclaim. More importantly, if...
After two years of deadlock, the proverbial white smoke has emerged from Lebanon’s parliament in Beirut’s Nejmeh Square. Former Lebanese Armed Forces commander Joseph Aoun has been elected...
One day after his surprise appointment as Hezbollah’s new secretary-general, Naim Qassem delivered his inaugural speech from that post—his fourth speech since Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. Qassem’s...
Hezbollah announced on October 29 that it appointed Naim Qassem, the longtime deputy secretary-general of the Lebanon-based group, as its new secretary-general. In a social media...
Naim Qassem, newly appointed as Hezbollah’s secretary-general, has become the centerpiece of the group’s narrative efforts. On October 15, as then-deputy secretary-general, he gave his third speech...
With Hassan Nasrallah gone, Hezbollah reeling and Iran’s grip weakening, the Lebanese have started crawling out of the woodwork. On Monday, a few oligarchs and a bloc of 31 lawmakers, out of 128, called...
On September 27, the unimaginable happened. At approximately 5:22 p.m. local time, reports emerged of a massive Israeli strike on the predominantly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut, known colloquially as...
Hezbollah, although it only has a handful of seats in parliament, has deep control over Lebanon. Part of this is that they stockpiled so many weapons that it is stronger than the state of Lebanon.
Hezbollah faces crisis after thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon and Syria, killing ten and wounding thousands, including the Iranian ambassador, causing chaos and fear.
Iran is rallying its proxy groups, including Lebanon's Amal Movement and Iraqi allies, to oppose Israel ahead of the UN General Assembly session.
On Jun. 15, Islamic Jihad’s branch in Syria, The Martyr Ali al-Aswad Brigade, published a statement mourning the death of a fighter killed in southern Lebanon. “One of the heroes of The Martyr Ali...
Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israel on April 26 in retaliation against an Israeli strike that killed two Palestinian Islamist terrorists in Lebanon...
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, targets IDF in northern Israel. Tensions escalate with attacks on multiple fronts.
A Lebanese judge investigating the December 2022 killing of an Irish peacekeeper serving in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) filed an indictment on June 2 against five of the perpetrators...
Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces
The “transnational”: this is how Qassem Soleimani, the former head of Iran’s Qods Force, who was killed in a January U.S. missile strike in Baghdad, is described in Hezbollah-run schools in Lebanon....