Hezbollah facing financial squeeze as supply lines from Iran are severed
The Lebanese militant group is grappling with a stunning reversal of fortune after its war with Israel and the ouster of its ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah to bury Nasrallah in mass funeral
Lebanon's Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an ...
Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos
The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
Foreign Affairs1d
In Assad’s Fall, an Echo of the Arab Spring
The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...
Al-Monitor on MSN7d
Syrian forces uncover drugs, weapons in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese border
Syrian forces uncover defunct drug factory in former Hezbollah stronghold near Lebanese border, cracking down on smugglers.
Asharq Alawsat (English) on MSN6d
Marwan Hamadeh: Hafez al-Assad Told Us, ‘Forget Bachir Gemayel,' and he Was Assassinated 4 Days Later
For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...
The Hindu6d
Syrian forces uncover drugs, weapons in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese border
In a desolate area of Syria where Lebanese militant group Hezbollah once held sway, security forces shot open the gates to an abandoned building and found a defunct drug factory. Syria’s new ...
Al-Monitor8d
Drugs, weapons in Syria borderland where Hezbollah held sway
They have also accused Lebanon's Hezbollah, which for years propped up Bashar al-Assad, of firing at them in clashes in the weeks since his ouster. "We've begun to comb factories used by Hezbollah and ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
Syria's interim foreign minister says Russia-Iran ties to Assad are an open wound
Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...
Al-Monitor6d
Hezbollah chief says Lebanon must ensure Israeli withdrawal
Hezbollah lost a supply route when Islamist-led rebels in December ousted ally Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria. Rubio said that "while the fall of Assad is certainly promising", Washington would ...
Foreign Affairs18d
A Better Lebanon Is Possible
Battered by conflict, in November, it signed a cease-fire agreement with Israel and pulled its forces from Lebanon’s south—Hezbollah’s traditional domain. Not long after, Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell ...