Hezbollah Has Effectively Won the Lebanese Presidency
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif arrived in Beirut on Tuesday to congratulate ...
Special Tribunal for Lebanon
A death in Damascus, a funeral in Beirut
Five years ago, during the hopefully named Arab Spring, Syrians staged peaceful protests against the ruling dynasty that had long oppressed them. President Bashar al Assad responded brutally: In...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Military Commander Killed in Syria
Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah’s military commander, was killed in Syria on Thursday night according to Lebanese television channels close to Hezbollah. Al-Mayadeen TV claimed Badreddine was...
Policy Briefs
Assad’s Cabinet
Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.
Op-eds
US Adds 2 Senior Hezbollah Military Leaders to Terror List
Yesterday the US Treasury Department added both Hezbollah's military leader and the chief of its External Security Organization to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists....
Op-eds
A Talk with Samir Geagea, Head of the Lebanese Forces
Maarab, Lebanon Samir Geagea is reluctant to speak much of the attem...
Op-eds
A Hezbollah Crack-up?
Lebanon’s fratricidal extremists.
Op-eds
Fallible
In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made...
Op-eds
Countering Syria’s Lebanese Power Play
Pity poor Lebanon. Earlier this month, the murderous regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad imposed a government in Beirut dominated by the terrorist group, Hezbollah -- which, as it happens,...
Op-eds
Mikati’s Probationary Period
The reactions from Washington, Paris and Riyadh following Najib Mikati’s designation as prime minister suggest that we are now in a watchful, wait-and-see period. Everyone is keeping a clos...
Op-eds
Iran’s Road Rules
There’s much white noise surrounding the situation in Lebanon, as several actors stir frantically on the margins. Whether it’s France’s proposal for a Lebanon “contact gro...
Op-eds
The United States, France, and Their Allies Cannot Allow Terror Group Hezbollah to Deny Justice
On Wednesday , Hezbollah brought down Lebanon’s democratic government. The group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet, crumbling the unity government in an impeccably-timed constitutiona...
Op-eds
We Saw It Coming
The resignation of Hezbollah and its allies from the Lebanese government was, in many ways, foreseeable. Hezbollah and Prime Minister Saad Hariri's respective positions on the Special Tribun...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Act
By now, the objective behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s contacts with France and Saudi Arabia is rather clear: Attempting to create a renewed consensus for a full – if...
Op-eds
Sarkozy’s Costly Pipe Dream
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s latest trip to France served as yet another reminder of the obvious futility of the Elysee’s attitude towards Syria under Nicolas Sarkozy. Driving t...
Op-eds
Journalists Keep The Hezbollah Myth Alive
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah’s speech last week, in which he rehashed an old conspiracy theory featuring former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, offered an opportunity...
Op-eds
Prosecute Hezbollah
In the coming weeks, the United Nations will indict the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in its first-ever tribunal to try terrorists. As the international prosecutors of the Secur...
Op-eds
Look At Who Holds The South Lebanon Trigger
On the eve of last Friday’s mini-Arab summit in Lebanon, the United States quietly, but noticeably, renewed a 2007 Executive Order designating parties deemed to be undermining Lebanese sove...
Op-eds
Born-Again “Resister”
Walid Jumblatt returned from his long-awaited visit to Syria last week a born-again “resister.” Completing the retreat from his previously-held positions, Jumblatt has adopted wholesa...
Op-eds
Syria’s plan
In an interview with the Emirate daily Al-Khaleej last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once again revealed his intention to dominate Lebanon. Assad made a number of thinly-veiled threats a...