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12 Sep 2017, 12:16 pm
Saudi Arabia has supported rebel groups fighting the Russian-backed Syrian government and Hezbollah. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 9:00 am
Last week, Hezbollah and Assad regime forces broke through to a regime garrison in Deir Ezzor that had been besieged for three years, and Hezbollah now claims that they control the highway entering the city and are forcing the Islamic State out. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:23 am
Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long war in 2006 in Lebanon and tensions have risen this year because of Hezbollah’s involvement in the conflict in Syria. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 6:30 am
” But Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah took issue with this characterization, noting that pro-regime forces are pushing east as well. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 12:18 pm
A convoy of 17 buses loaded with at least 300 armed ISIS fighters, their families and other civilians is stuck in the Syrian desert, unable to continue on its approved retreat into Iraq since the US-led coalition air forces have been target practicing on them since Tuesday. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 7:00 am
In June, FBI agents arrested Hezbollah operatives planning attacks within U.S. borders. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 10:31 am
As part of the agreement, ISIS returned the bodies of nine Lebanese soldiers, three Hezbollah fighters, and one Iranian military adviser. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 10:34 am
Lebanon cooperated with the Syrian Army and Hezbollah to arrange the ceasefire and reduce the Islamic State presence along its border with Syria. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 5:30 am
Thanking Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah, Assad said that Syria had “lost its best youth and its infrastructure,” but had “won a healthier and more homogenous society. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 12:13 pm
The Lebanese Army, Hezbollah, and the Islamic State declared a ceasefire on Sunday to facilitate the exchange. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 1:08 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently expressed concern about Iran’s growing presence in Syria and said last month that “our policy is clear: we vehemently oppose the military buildup by Iran and its proxies, primarily Hezbollah, in Syria and we will do whatever it takes to protect Israel’s security. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 8:00 am
Once regime forces have made more gains against the Islamic State near Deir Ezzor, Assad reportedly wants to attack rebel strongholds in Idlib province—an area where U.S. officials have recently expressed concerns about extremist groups and rebels operating from Lebanon were recently relocated under a ceasefire agreement reached with Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 9:41 am
In July, Hezbollah launched an offensive to dislodge the Al Qaeda fighters from Jroud Arsal, a city along Lebanon’s northeast border that Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front, had conquered in 2014. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 8:00 am
Hariri is an interesting messenger: He campaigned against Hezbollah for years after the assassination of his father, Prime Minister Rafic Hariri; he previously served as prime minister from 2009 to 2011, until Hezbollah took down his government. [read post]
30 Jul 2017, 7:00 am
Editor’s Note: Non-proliferation has been an imperfect but real policy success in the modern era. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 1:23 pm
The plan aligns with the administration’s “ISIS-first” outlook on its goals in Syria, but critics say that it creates too wide of an opening for Iran, which could try to expand its influence and improve its capacity to arm the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 7:30 am
Foreign Policy reported last week that the agreement includes conditions that Iranian forces and proxies, including Hezbollah, not be allowed to operate in areas adjacent to the Golan Heights and Israeli border. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 9:45 pm
In one instance, a journalist from the United Arab Emirates was temporarily banned from the platform for posting a photograph of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a LGBTQ pride flag overlaid on it—a clear case of parody counter-speech that Facebook’s content moderators failed to grasp. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 11:00 pm
The threat posed by the Iranian regime was one focus of a recent Academic Exchange (AE) retreat of International Relations specialists and international lawyers. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 6:43 am
Your hosts also find time to talk about the recent arrest of two Hezbollah operatives inside the United States (with commentary on the role the material support statute plays in such cases), a recent airstrike in Somalia that DOD says took place under color of the recent policy decision to categorize Somalia as an area of active combat operations, a new bill from the House Armed Services Committee that would require DOD to give notice to HASC and SASC when conducting certain offensive… [read post]
