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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. ...

Israel

Hezbollah

Trump Should Remove U.S. Troops From Syria January 20, 2025

The fall of the brutal Assad regime marks a critical opportunity for the United States to remove itself entirely from Syria, avoiding entanglement in further war. American troops have been in Syria for the past decade with the primary objective of de...

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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

Former NATO Chief Credits Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire to Trump 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....

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The Way Forward With Iran December 03, 2024

Back in September, Israel successfully destroyed a bunker buried 60 feet underground, killing virtually all of Hezbollah’s senior leadership....

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Assad’s Weakening Grip December 03, 2024

Hezbollah leaving Assad’s territory has made his regime vulnerable, enabling significant gains by Syrian opposition, though experts agree that Israel doesn’t have a side to support ...

Syria

Hezbollah Struggles To Maintain Displaced Shiite Population Support November 29, 2024

Hezbollah Has Weakened Iran November 29, 2024

The Lebanese ceasefire squeezes Tehran's allies ...

Hezbollah

Hezbollah Testing Israel Over Ceasefire Violations November 27, 2024

In KfarKela and in a variety of other villages, Hezbollah forces started to try to enter areas that the IDF has defined as no-go zones for them. ...

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Is Israel’s Ceasefire Letting Hezbollah off the Hook? November 27, 2024

The ceasefire announced between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon enters into force today. It does, however, contain several flaws. ...

Israel

Israel Reportedly Set To Approve Ceasefire With Lebanon’s Hezbollah November 26, 2024

IAF Jets Pound Hezbollah in Dahiyeh, Kill Cmdr. Ahmad Sabhi Hazima November 26, 2024

Defeating Hezbollah Inside Lebanon Is Only Half the Battle November 26, 2024

Israel continues to battle Hezbollah, with diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire scuttled by the travel freeze that International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan imposed on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ...

Israel

Israel’s Trump Delusion November 26, 2024

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could not have come at a better time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More than 13 months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Israel finds itself on a roll. Since the...

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Peace to Prosperity is America First in the Middle East November 26, 2024

A Fortuitous Confluence of EventsDonald Trump’s foreign policy team is shaping up to be great news for Israel, the West, and the proper definition of America First. The erosion of American interests under the Biden Administration means that Trump wi...

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Xi Is Ready This Time for Trump November 25, 2024

The US is in the midst of its presidential transition, but the world isn’t waiting patiently for Jan. 20 to arrive. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is pressing his advantage in Ukraine. Israel is devastating Hezbollah and Hamas. The Houthis of Yemen are inte...

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Upsetting Hezbollah’s Financial Network November 21, 2024

Israel recently attacked banks in Lebanon it alleges are part of the financial network that supports Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah (a member of the Lebanese government). While Israel is great at the blowing-up aspect of fighting Hezbollah’s fina...

Hezbollah

Hezbollah Chief: Reviewed Truce Proposal, Ceasefire in Israel’s Hands November 20, 2024

Hezbollah Fires Rockets Six Miles From Israel, Targeting UNIFIL Posts November 20, 2024

Israel Insists on Right To Act Against Hezbollah in Any Deal November 20, 2024

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...

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