Lebanon
Trump’s Actions Suggest He Wants Competing Power Blocs Based on Shared Geography and Historical Linkages in the Middle East
Trump May Describe the Agreement as a Sign of Iran’s Absolute Surrender, but Such Spin Has No Resonance in Lebanon
Even the Limited Progress Achieved So Far Remains Vulnerable to Regional Developments and Political Tensions
The Movement Presents Itself as a Pragmatic Lebanese Institutional Force, but It Remains Entangled with Hezbollah’s Power
The Problem Is That Hezbollah Continues to Pose an Existential Threat to Israel
Expanding Influence Has Emboldened Erdoğan’s Government and Vision of a Middle East Where Islamist Movements Dominate
Iran Demands That Any Agreement on the Strait of Hormuz and the Nuclear Program Include a Cessation of Israeli Operations Against Hezbollah
The Obstacle to Peace Between Israel and Lebanon Is an Armed Non-State Militia Actor—Hezbollah—That Pledges Allegiance to Iran and That Wants to Stay Dominant in Lebanon
Israel Is Evidently Unable to Develop a Policy or Strategy Able to Finally Place Relations with Its Smaller Northern Neighbor on a Firm and Stable Footing
France Has a Particular Investment in the Fiction That Lebanese Sovereignty and Hezbollah’s Military Infrastructure Can Coexist Indefinitely
Seizing the Site Halts Hezbollah’s Firing Arcs and Creates a Permanent Israeli Observation and Interdiction Platform
Hezbollah Has Weaponized Segments of Northern Israel’s Criminal Underworld, Converting It Into an Instrument of Iranian Hybrid Warfare
First-Person-View Drones Cost Between $300 and $500 per Unit and Can Be Assembled in a Bedroom
Incumbent Prime Minister Edi Rama Has Taken the Country’s Criminality to a New Level
The IDF Is Now Scrambling to Find Technological and Tactical Solutions to the Growing Hezbollah Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Threat
Hezbollah Has No Interest in Lebanese Sovereignty or Peace and Is Simply Acting as a Tool for Iran and Other Rejectionists
Despite Ceasefires Across Three Fronts, All Sides Are Preparing for Renewed Combat
The ‘Lebanese Mud,’ as the Hebrew Phrase Has It, Never Seems Quite to Be Finally Scraped off the IDF’s Boots
A Lebanese Sunni Perspective
Hezbollah Chose to Join the Current Round of Fighting After Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Was Killed