Watching the development of the story concerning Hezbollah and Scud missiles has been an object lesson in how speculation can be spun into established fact. I first heard the rumor …
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The story of the Lebanese resistance has long followed the Hezbollah narrative — unsurprising, given the party’s martial exploits of the early 1990s, when it came to dominate the effort …
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Just shy of the ides of March, the Lebanese army is to host (snow permitting) the second Raid des Cedres, in which teams of three race through Mount Lebanon …
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The Palestinian gunman, his face screwed up with rage, ran towards us, raising his AK-47 and yelled, “Get your hands up! Get your hands up!” It was June 2007 and …
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Hezbollah’s new political manifesto has taken a long time to materialize. As long ago as October 2002, Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, said the party was working on an …
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Speculation on another war between Hezbollah and Israel has been bubbling away since the end of the last encounter in 2006, but it has intensified of late with many predicting …
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Two mysterious explosions in suspected Hezbollah arms caches in the space of three months, and the discovery of Israeli electronic wire-tapping devices, provide rare glimpses into the covert intelligence war …
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During a recent meeting in Damascus with a senior Syrian official, an American diplomat relayed a request from Washington concerning a human rights issue in Syria. The Syrian official paused …
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With his snow white Old Testament-style beard, floppy hat and intense, inquisitive gaze, Patrick McGovern cuts an unlikely figure for someone likened to Indiana Jones. But rather than snatching mysterious …
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The series of subterranean explosions that shook Khirbet Selim in mid-July merely seemed to confirm what everyone knew but preferred to ignore — that Hezbollah has amassed arms and munitions …