Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport

January 8, 2025 | David Daoud, Ahmad Sharawi

Lebanon’s Mahan Air theater was meant to cover ceasefire deal non-performance

A false narrative has emerged claiming Lebanese authorities searched an Iranian plane last week at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport over suspicion the aircraft was smuggling...

November 10, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran attempts to insulate itself from possible Trump sanctions

With Trump returning to office, Iran is likely concerned it could be under “maximum pressure” again with the using sanctions and other methods to cut off Tehran’s economy.

October 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Lebanon’s Airport to Fund Terrorism; The World Must Respond

The Lebanese government has a choice to make — reclaim effective control of its main international airport from Hezbollah, or see that air hub destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. As government ministers...

August 29, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah’s Beirut Airport Powder Keg

Lebanon could be setting itself up for a repeat of the disastrous 2020 Beirut explosion.

June 23, 2024 | |

Hezbollah Drone Intercepted After Penetrating Deep Into Lower Galilee

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted an apparent Hezbollah drone over the Lower Galilee on June 23. The drone threat from Lebanon set off sirens in numerous Israeli communities...

November 3, 2023 |

10 Things to Know About Hezbollah

1. Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah (also spelled “Hizballah”) is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a political party based in Lebanon. The...

March 26, 2020 | Tony Badran, Jonathan Schanzer

Don’t fall for Hezbollah’s coronavirus con

Lebanon announced this month it was defaulting on all of its outstanding debt payments for the year, including $1.2 billion in eurobonds due in March. There are another $3.4 billion worth of eurobonds coming...

December 5, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Lebanon is gone

As Lebanon grapples for the second month with popular anti-government protests, there’s been a tempest in a teapot on Capitol Hill over the status of military assistance to the country. Following a trip...

December 13, 2018 | Tony Badran |

The Curtain is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly-Dance

What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?

September 17, 2018 | Tony Badran

Hezbollah Ritually Humiliates the UN

In what is becoming a yearly ritual, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted ...

September 6, 2018 | Tony Badran

The Myth of an Independent Lebanon

Western intelligence sources have ...

December 19, 2011 | James Kirchick Tablet |

The Happy Warrior

My memories of Christopher Hitchens

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review |

Hezbollah’s Beirut Blitz

As I have warned several times over the past year, and in many articles, Hezbollah has indeed waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon. Within 24 hou...

December 29, 2005 |

Freed Terrorist is One Too Many

By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Like millions of other Americans, I can't forget the brutal 1985 torture and murder of young U.S. naval officer Robert Dean Stethem. Appar...