An-Nahar

October 22, 2024 | David Daoud, Ahmad Sharawi

Israel Is Hurting Hezbollah. But It Can’t Rely on Lebanon to Finish the Job

The Iranian-backed group has deep popular roots, and its degradation or elimination will have to rest equally on military defeat coupled with political and social pressure

March 21, 2024 | |

IDF: Hezbollah Stores Weapons in Lebanese Civilian Areas

Hezbollah is storing weapons, including explosives, in Lebanese civilian areas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 20. The Israeli military released footage of an explosion...

February 8, 2024 | David Daoud |

Israel attempts to assassinate two high-ranking Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon

On Thursday evening, at approximately 4:30 PM local time, media outlets began reporting on a possible Israeli drone strike in south Lebanon. The details of the strike were slightly unusual. The strike...

January 4, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Wrong Way: The Problem With Al Qaeda Prisoner Swaps

In early December, Qatar mediated the release of t...

July 21, 2011 | |

The Lebanese Elections and Hezbollah’s Agenda

On Sunday, June 7, Lebanon will go to the polls to elect a new parliament. News reports and analyses are abuzz with the possibility of the emergence of a new parliamentary majority comprised of a...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

The Iranian Connection

What's wrong in Lebanon?

July 13, 2010 | |

The Islamic Revolution Is Still Alive

The recent tension in South Lebanon, choreographed by Hezbollah against UNIFIL under the guise of spontaneous protests by villagers, has been used by the party to reassert its equation of “...

June 22, 2010 | |

Syriana

In the annals of “big policy ideas,” perhaps none has had as much staying power in the face of a dismal track record than the seemingly perpetual conviction that integrating Syria int...

October 23, 2009 |

The Pretense of Reform

By Tony Badram and Mara E. Karlin Senior officials in the Obama administration are batting around the notion that the Taliban in Afghanistan could play a role comparable to that...

May 17, 2009 | |

Hezbollah’s Agenda in Lebanon

This article was...

June 29, 2008 | Tony Badran Beirut2Bayside

The Argument for Divorce

 Back in February, Walid Jumblat made critical statements in an interview with Future News Channel. Jumblat spoke of the need for an "amicable divorce" between Hezbollah and the rest of Leba...

January 11, 2008 |

Hezbollah’s Billion Petrodollars


A few weeks ago, articles published around the world reported that Hezbollah is undergoing two major changes. Both portend greater violence from the Iranian-sponsored global terrorist network.

The first change is a shift in leadership responsibilities. A report published initially in the Saudi owned Sharq al Awsat said the office of Ayatollah Khomenei appointed deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassim as the new supreme commander of Hezbollah forces and the personal representative of the Ayatollah in Lebanon. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, according to this report remains as secretary general of the organization. Sources said this change in control and command is because of "differences in opinions" between Narsrallah and Qassim.

January 31, 2006 | Mideast Monitor |

Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri

Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...

December 13, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal and European Edition) |

Gebran Tueni, R.I.P.

At a rally of the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon this past March, among the chants of "Death to America" and the banners lauding Syria, some of the demonstrators brandished posters that thr...

March 22, 2005 | Claudia Rosett New York Sun |

Syrian Dissidents Find Their Voice As Lebanon Provides a Megaphone

With Lebanese democrats speaking up and Syria's occupying forces pulling out, it may sound unsurprising that one of Beirut's leading Arabic newspapers ran a searing critique this week o...

March 20, 2005 | New York Sun |

As Window of Opportunity Opens in Lebanon, Hope Surges

Above a busy shopping street where a bomb blew out the front walls of a building Friday night, injuring nine people, there now stretches a long row of glittering lights. Local authorities have re...

May 4, 2003 |

Demise of a Dictator

By Amb. Richard Carlson Those who have followed the war of liberation in Iraq know how slanted and unfair the news coverage has been in parts of the Arab world. Quotes like this from Pal...