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The Ceasefires That Aren’t in Gaza, Lebanon February 20, 2025

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire in the Gaza Strip war is slowly disintegrating with daily small-scale breaches in the battered coastal enclave. Should the currently low-intensity warfare boil over, it would jeopardize a three-pronged peace plan announced ...

Lebanon

IDF To Remain in Five Strategic Posts in South Lebanon February 17, 2025

Syria’s Lingering Lebanon Problem February 10, 2025

Syria’s government has only a handful of leftover Syrian regime equipment, such as old tanks that date from the 1990s or the Soviet era. ...

Syria

IDF Dismantles Hezbollah Weapon Storage in Southern Lebanon February 03, 2025

Lebanon’s PM-Designate Is Unlikely To Confront Hezbollah January 31, 2025

After a two-year vacancy, Lebanon finally has a president....

Lebanon

Can the Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire Hold? January 29, 2025

With a new administration in Washington and a renewed focus on the West Bank, it is in Israel’s interests to maintain the ceasefire in Lebanon. ...

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Hezbollah

Lebanon Ceasefire Deal Extended as Initial Deadline Passes January 27, 2025

IDF To Stay In Areas of South Lebanon Beyond Ceasefire Deadline January 24, 2025

Trump’s Israel Support Comes With Strings Attached January 24, 2025

Week one of Trump's presidency reveals dual approach: public backing for Israel through executive orders while pressuring Netanyahu behind the scenes on hostage deal and Lebanon....

Israel

How Iran Lost Before It Lost January 24, 2025

“Today, you can get in a car in Tehran and get out in the Dahia, Beirut.” Five years and two months after Gen. Qasem Soleimani made this statement, the Islamic Republic of Iran is in retreat. Iran’s air and ground lines of supply to Lebanon now go th...

iran

France’s Macron Visits Lebanon Amid Reconstruction Hopes January 17, 2025

Hezbollah’s Options Are Running Out January 14, 2025

Joseph Khalil Aoun. He’s mostly unknown outside his native Lebanon, but is already helping transform the Middle East. ...

Lebanon

Hezbollah’s Waning Influence in Lebanon January 10, 2025

Lebanon’s Parliament elected a U.S.-trained general as president, ending a two-year vacancy in a sign of Hezbollah’s waning influence following a bruising war with Israel and the weakening of the group’s Iranian patron. ...

Lebanon

Israeli Army Says It Is Striking ‘Terror Targets’ in Lebanon December 03, 2024

Israel’s Victory in Lebanon December 03, 2024

Israeli operations in Lebanon have defeated Hezbollah and compelled the group to end its involvement in the October 7 War....

Lebanon

Christian Militias Opposing Hezbollah in Lebanon December 03, 2024

In April this year, Pascal Sleiman, a coordinator for the Lebanese Forces (LF) party—Lebanon’s largest Christian party—was abducted near Byblos, north of Beirut, and later found dead in Syria....

Lebanon

Hezbollah Supporters Question the Costs of War December 03, 2024

The bodies were laid out in long rows, hundreds of them, mostly fighters but civilians too, in plywood boxes poking out from heaps of earth....

Hezbollah

Lebanon

Is This the End for Barnier – And Macron? December 03, 2024

Emmanuel Macron arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for trade talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Having signed a strategic partnership deal in Riyadh, the pair pledged to work for peace in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon. ...

France

U.S. Envoy: Israel Has Been Violating Terms of Lebanon Ceasefire December 02, 2024

Timeline: Lebanon Civil War November 20, 2024

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Day After November 20, 2024

On October 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Lebanese people to rise up against Hezbollah, giving them a stark choice: “Stand up and take your country,” he said, “before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to des...

Lebanon

How Will Hezbollah Factor Into Lebanon’s Future? November 19, 2024

The best that Israel can hope for in the short term is to push Hezbollah’s armed forces far enough from the border to allow the displaced Israeli families of the North to return to their homes. ...

Hezbollah

Trump’s Opportunity in Lebanon November 18, 2024

As the United States’ President-elect Donald Trump gears up for his second term in office, there are indications that Lebanon may be a focal point of his Middle East policy. ...

IDF Exposes Cracks in Hezbollah’s Support in Lebanon November 18, 2024

"The Shiites in Lebanon are under pressure they have never experienced before," says Prof. Baram, emphasizing the pressure is multifaceted. ...

IDF

Israel Keeps up Fierce Lebanon Bombardment November 16, 2024