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4 May 2018, 6:11 am by Hady Amr
During the last parliamentary elections—in 2009—when the votes were counted and coalitions were built, 71 of the 128 seats went to a pro-Western alliance, and 57 went to the alliance supported by Hezbollah. [read post]
1 May 2018, 8:46 am by J. Dana Stuster
Israel has periodically targeted Iranian weapons in Syria which could be transferred to Hezbollah and directed at Israel, but the cadence of these strikes has increased in recent weeks. [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 8:48 am by Dror Michman, Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
It has the possibility to ignite a war between Israel and Hezbollah, and to harm crucial Hezbollah arsenals and infrastructure, serving neither Iranian nor Hezbollah’s interests. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 7:00 am by Ariane Tabatabai
What had initially seemed like a quick intervention on the side of an ally—which during the Iran-Iraq War had provided significant support and had since allowed Tehran access to its preferred non-state ally, Hezbollah—became a long civil conflict, leading to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. [read post]
24 Mar 2018, 4:43 am by William Ford
Kahn announced the newest paper in Lawfare’s Research Paper Series: Matthew Levitt’s “In Search of Nuance in the Debate over Hezbollah’s Criminal Enterprise and the U.S. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by Shibley Telhami
Thus, Riyadh became far more interventionist in foreign policy, even before the rise of King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: from attempts to influence politics in Iraq to limit the rising influence of Iran, to heavily investing in Lebanon to counter Hezbollah’s influence, to working clandestinely and aggressively to organize and support opposition to the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 10:53 am by William Ford
According to rebel officials and a Hezbollah military media unit, Syrian rebels intend to evacuate Eastern Ghouta as part of an agreement brokered by the Russian Defence Ministry, Reuters reports. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 7:30 am by Matthew Kahn
  It is as wrong to accuse the Obama administration of “letting Hezbollah off the hook” as it is to assert that protecting the Iran nuclear deal had no impact on decisions to target Hezbollah’s criminal behavior. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:00 am by Bruce Riedel
The top American general in the region said this week that Iran has accomplished more in Yemen in the last five years than it did in building up Hezbollah in Lebanon in 20 years. [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 7:00 am
Iran seemed unlikely to agree to pull its forces or its proxies like Hezbollah out of the de-escalation zones, and President Erdogan declared at the end of the summit that the participation of Kurdish “terrorists” was unacceptable for Ankara. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 3:40 pm by David B. Kopel
On his rifle and jacket he had written "Hezbollah," "PLO," "Libya," and "death to the Great Satin" [sic]. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 6:00 am by Pavel K. Baev
He has been able to communicate with just about every stakeholder in the Syrian calamity, from Iran to Saudi Arabia, and from Israel to Hezbollah. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 6:00 am by Daniel Byman
Although most parties are unwilling to admit it, Iran, Hezbollah, and various Iraqi Shia groups all are on the same side as the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel when it came to fighting the Islamic State. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Emily Whalen
Hariri claimed Iran and Hezbollah’s “meddling” in the affairs of the Arab world prompted the surprise resignation. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
” According to Elizabeth Tsurkov, writing in War on the Rocks, in addition to its occasional airstrikes targeting regime and Iranian weapon caches that could be transferred to Hezbollah, Israel has also increased its support to Syrian rebels in recent months to preserve Free Syrian Army groups as a counterweight to Iranian forces in southwestern Syria. [read post]
18 Feb 2018, 7:00 am by Christopher J. Fuller
Inexperienced and lacking access to the Pentagon’s resources, the CIA reached out to Lebanon’s G-2 intelligence agency to recruit local operatives to initiate a plan to kill Hezbollah’s so-called spiritual leader, Mohammed Hussayn Fadlallah, whom Langley’s analysts had linked to a number of terrorist attacks including the 1983 suicide bombing of an American barracks in Beirut. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 1:54 pm by William Ford
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Lebanon to “disassociate” itself from Hezbollah, the Post reports. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 8:02 am by Dror Michman, Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
Israel has opted for action, rather than allowing the situation to fester until it reaches the scale of other strategic threats facing the country—namely the over 100,000 rockets and missiles currently in Hezbollah’s arsenal. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 7:47 am by Amichai Cohen, Elena Chachko
Iran, Russia and Hezbollah operate in Syria with the approval of the Syrian government. [read post]