Tag: Lebanon

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Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s bad week in the West

Tom Rogan · November 26, 2021 11:00 am

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Five looming global flashpoints

Tom Rogan · October 19, 2021 6:59 pm

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Hezbollah faces its Lebanon reckoning

Tom Rogan · October 15, 2021 5:19 pm

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Biden bungles Lebanon

Michael Rubin · September 21, 2021 10:00 am

Israeli ambassador: Israel wants Iranian government ‘overthrown’

Joel Gehrke · August 6, 2021 10:44 pm

In this October 24, 2015 file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah addresses a crowd during the holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Hezbollah finds itself amid some resistance

Tom Rogan · August 6, 2021 8:13 pm

The Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept an incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Israel. Israel's military has deployed Iron Dome defense system to the north of the country following Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militants. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)

Hezbollah takes responsibility for rocket fire at Israel, claims it was retaliatory

Mike Brest · August 6, 2021 12:42 pm

A Lebanese boy stands on his balcony next of a large portrait of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. An explosion ripped through a Shiite neighborhood in south Beirut on Tuesday targeting supporters of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group. Hezbollah has sent its gunmen to fight alongside Assad's forces, providing a significant boost to the Syrian government's overstretched military. Hezbollah's critics say the group's armed intervention in Syria has stoked sectarian tensions at home and needlessly dragged Lebanon into the maelstrom next door. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Hezbollah and allies drive Lebanon toward state failure

Tom Rogan · July 12, 2021 8:08 pm

Lebanon’s struggling army resorts to offering helicopter joyrides to tourists

Brady Knox · June 30, 2021 8:42 pm

A Hezbollah supporter uses her mobile phone to takes a picture of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah leaders, Abbas al-Moussawi, Ragheb Harb and Imad Mughniyeh and the end of a 40-day Muslim mourning period for slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. Nasrallah said U.S. President Donald Trump declared war on the Middle East when the U.S. assassinated Soleimani and when the White House announced its plan to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He called on all to resist U.S. influence and its troops presence.

Pentagon linguist who passed secrets to Hezbollah sentenced to 23 years in prison

Jerry Dunleavy · June 23, 2021 11:16 pm

Violence continues in day No. 10 of Israel-Hamas fighting as Lebanon launches assault

Jake Dima · May 19, 2021 12:00 am

In this October 24, 2015 file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah addresses a crowd during the holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Note the Lebanese Hezbollah’s new threat to America

Tom Rogan · January 3, 2021 7:03 pm