Does treating Lebanon's deepening political crisis require Lebanon's attendance at the Geneva 2 Conference, which Russia and the United States are preparing for?
This small country has become completely attached to the Syrian crisis; everything in (...)
H. A. Hellyer
Al Arabiya
“THE Israeli attack against an Assad regime research facility in Damascus has brought out of the woodwork all sorts of individuals who, silent in the face of the massacre in the coastal city of Banias, have suddenly (...)
President Hafez Al-Assad set down a constitution that made the head of state the sole decision-maker, putting an end to the political role played by any other figure within the state, and stripping the three branches of government, legislative, (...)
Russia is acting in the manner of someone who cannot lose in Syria. A year ago, Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin carrying a project for a ‘corrective movement'. He sought to restore his country's position in the framework of US-Russian (...)
The Syrian coast bears a symbolic significance for the country's collective consciousness. Such symbolism became particularly entrenched under the rule of former President Hafez Al-Assad, and even more deeply rooted under that of his son and heir (...)
The secretary general of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, does not accept for one moment that his party is “confused, unclear or foggy," as he remarked during a televised address on Tuesday evening.
Is it reasonable that the vision, practice and (...)
US President Barack Obama's “Will Not" has come across as half-baked compared to the Hezbollah secretary general's retort with an arrogant “Will Not" of his own. Both men made threats, each at his own pace: the first with hesitation and fear of (...)
US President Barack Obama's “Will Not" has come across as half-baked compared to the Hezbollah secretary general's retort with an arrogant “Will Not" of his own. Both men made threats, each at his own pace: the first with hesitation and fear of (...)
It is neither green nor red. Obama will not rush, just as he will not stand by and watch. And it would not be an exaggeration to say that he does not know from where to launch a new effort to redefine the red line he set to separate two stages, i.e. (...)
The nature, taste, or timing of death no longer makes a difference for the Syrians. To them, death is one and the same while seeking freedom and dignity, regardless of the size of the crimes and mass murders perpetrated by Al-Assad's regime.
For the (...)
If Iran has truly sounded the horn to defend the Syrian regime, in order to head off any attack by the Syrian opposition on Damascus, which has been planned for months, then this is an indication that the Syrian crisis has entered a new phase, one (...)
DUBAI – Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had recently “secretly” met Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran to discuss the ongoing Syrian crisis, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper.
Sources told Al-Rai newspaper in (...)
In 1976, Lebanon knew a phenomenon called the Arab Deterrent Force, which soon turned into a purely Syrian detachment after the rest of the Arab troops left it. That force, according to the official designation, was required to safeguard security (...)
REVIVIM JUNCTION, Israel — On a dusty field in Israel's southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe: Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
As the Syrian civil war intensifies, military planners are growing (...)
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, was not helped recently by developments on the ground in Syria, and particularly those close to its border with Lebanon. On Saturday, Nasrallah delivered a speech to commemorate the (...)
Sharif Nashashibi
Al Arabiya
It was always inevitable that Syria's revolution would have repercussions in neighboring Lebanon, but since the start of the uprising two years ago, never have we come closer to all-out, direct conflict between Syrian (...)
Syria's Assad regime has from early in the rebellion against its rule enjoyed financial and logistical support from Iran. Indeed the Free Syria Army's capture of Iranian Revolutionary Guards last year, all of them according to Tehran former members (...)
What if Rafiq al-Hariri were alive today? The question comes to mind when one sees the delegations of people descending on Hariri's tomb in Beirut, as his death continues to generate political events despite the eight years that have passed since (...)
Sharif Nashashibi
Al Arabiya
Israel last week made good on its numerous threats to intervene in the Syrian conflict by carrying out an airstrike. The target was either a military research center, a military complex, or a convoy of SA-17 (...)
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JEDDAH/DUBAI — For the fifth consecutive year, Jeddah's Athr Gallery has been chosen to represent the Saudi art scene at Art Dubai 2013 following a rigorous selection process.
The seventh edition of Art Dubai takes place from March 20-23 at Madinat (...)
If John Kerry is appointed as the next U.S. Secretary of State, Hezbollah would stand to benefit greatly and bring benefit to others, should it meet the new Secretary halfway.
Hezbollah is a national liberation movement combatting Israeli terrorism. (...)
A few years ago, a person could say, "I am Arab," and believe it. He would believe in this affiliation, as an insurance policy, or a mosaic of language, history and culture, and usually religion. A Sudanese, for example, thought that there was a (...)
The Arab Spring reminds me of the old, unlamented Socialist bloc countries. Each one was officially called "Democratic," and they were certainly as democratic as the Libya of Muammar Gaddafi was "Great," as in the country's official name.
Today, I (...)
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Hezbollah group would fire thousands of rockets into Israel in any future war and target cities in the country's heartland, the group's leader said Sunday.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's warning came days after an eight-day Israeli (...)
