Iraq and Lebanon share the same sectarian disease. External pressure now offers both a rare opening for reform.
Browsing: Lebanon
How Israeli spy networks use medical travel, family coercion, and long-term agents to undermine resistance movements across the region.
The Iran war’s aftermath brings U.S. strategic setbacks, rising extremism, Turkey’s expanded influence, and shifting Gulf security calculations.
Lebanon becomes the first Middle Eastern state to end executions, reshaping extradition law and regional justice amid Syria debates.
A new Israel Security Doctrine of perpetual war and expanding buffers may undermine the economy, reserves, legitimacy, and long-term national survival.
Lebanon’s Lebanon-Israel framework is not merely bad—it crosses from regrettable into intolerable, binding sovereignty to obligations the state cannot enforce.
Syria’s post-Assad position is now reshaping Gulf, U.S., and regional strategies, making stability a central test of influence.
Arab states no longer need Israel recognition to secure US ties; Washington now increasingly weighs narrower interests first.
Direct U.S.-Hezbollah contact faces resistance in Beirut, as Washington escalates pressure and Hezbollah weighs strategic guarantees before deciding.
Burke explains why Marxism and Islamism merged into revolutionary violence and why repression only postponed new waves of militancy.