Michel Aoun

Pretending to Disarm Hezbollah Won’t Work

Lebanon is pretending to disarm Hezbollah and thinks that the world believes it. Then, when the world calls Beirut out, Lebanese officials engage in collective delusion and blame “Israeli aggression”...

Hezbollah Reneging on Surrendering Its Arms

Hezbollah and its allies – Speaker Nabih Berri, former Minister Najib Mikati, and Hezbollah ministers in the previous cabinet – all signed the ceasefire agreement with Israel that ended the war and...

Hezbollah’s Comeback Plan and How to Counter It

If the glass at your house got shattered during Hezbollah’s war with Israel, the Iran-backed militia would pay you $1,200 to fix it, a hefty sum by Lebanese standards. Reports, perhaps exaggerated, suggest...

Israel SitRep: January 13, 2025

Today’s Issue: | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Targets After Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Is Informed of Threats, Which ‘Are Not Addressed’ | IDF Has Eliminated At Least 165 Terrorists in West Bank Operations...

Lebanon’s Aoun could move toward peace – if Hezbollah lets him

The Iran-backed militia is bowed but not broken – and it could still find a way to hijack Saudi funds for its own rehabilitation

‘New Era’: Lebanon Elects Former LAF Commander Joseph Aoun President

Lebanon Chooses New President: Lebanon’s parliament elected Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) General Joseph Aoun to be the country’s next president. Aoun, who has been backed by...

A Message for America: A Free Lebanon Is the Only Path to Truly Stopping Hezbollah

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Lebanon’s leadership vacuum threatens to prolong Israel-Hezbollah war

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.

Lebanese political leader sounds the alarm on Hezbollah

Lebanon may be tired of the excesses of Hezbollah and how it is dragging the country into conflict.

Hezbollah’s war has destroyed South Lebanon, BBC report reveals

Beautiful Southern Lebanon could have been tourist center, like Italy or Greece, but Hezbollah destroyed it.

Lebanon is using Hezbollah to blackmail Israel on border talks 

War once again looms between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah. After the last conflict between the two adversaries, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 1701, which installed...

New Canadian sanctions fall short in Lebanon

If Minister Joly is serious about opposing corruption in Lebanon, there's more Ottawa can do

New U.S., UK, Canadian Sanctions Target Former Lebanese Central Bank Governor 

The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom and Canada, imposed sanctions today on former Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and three of his associates.  Washington once considered...

Presidential Vacuum Persists in Lebanon

The term of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ended last week, but the country’s parliament has so far failed to elect a successor. The presidential vacuum, which compounds Lebanon’s political and economic problems, persists because Iranian proxy Hezbollah, the dominant political force in Lebanon, has yet to choose a president from among its two main Christian allies: Aoun’s son-in-law, Gebran Bassil, and Suleiman Franjieh, a grandson of Lebanon’s fifth president, also named Suleiman Franjieh. Hezbollah fears that favoring one means losing the support of the other.

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Lebanon Has an Opposition Movement Again

A new coalition could check—or even dislodge—Hezbollah and its iron grip.

The White House Is Bending the Law on Syria Sanctions

Lebanon’s ‘useless’ election will be neither free nor fair

Hezbollah coercion has occurred in the weeks and months leading up to this Sunday’s vote

Helping Iran fail in Iraq

Hours after the failed Nov. 7 assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, pro-Iran militias in Iraq claimed responsibility but denied that Tehran had ordered the attack. Not only...