By Mitt Romney’s own admission he has already lost some 47 percent of the vote in the race for the United States presidency to those who believe they are “entitled …
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Hezbollah
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President Michel Sleiman’s proposal for a national defense strategy, which includes placing Hezbollah’s arsenal of weapons under the command of the Lebanese army, is an attempt to fine tune an …
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The leader of the Lebanese anti-Israeli group Hezbollah has called for fresh protests in the country on Monday over a film deemed offensive to Muslims. The world needed to know …
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The mainly Shia tribes of the Bekaa Valley are fiercely independent, live by strict traditions of honor and clan solidarity and scorn the dictates of the Lebanese state. In the …
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A few months ago, in a conversation with a Hezbollah official I said I could imagine Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the party’s leader, reminiscing about the good old days in the …
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Is Hezbollah beginning to dampen its enthusiasm for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad? The answer is probably no, but that question is being asked in diplomatic circles after …
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The tumultuous start to 2011 with the collapse of the Saad Hariri government in Lebanon and the establishment, after several months of hard bargaining, of a new administration headed by …
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A Book by Michael Totten There has been a flurry of books published over the past few years by Westerners, primarily Americans, describing in depth their brief encounters with Lebanon …
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If Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, is planning to base his case against the four Hezbollah members indicted for the assassination of Rafik Hariri solely …
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Many questions have been raised following the May 15 “Nakba” border incidents in southern Lebanon which left six demonstrators confirmed dead. But so far they haven’t been the right …