Moscow wants to make sure the opposition—or anyone else for that matter—doesn't get any funny ideas and attempt to disrupt the status quo it established when it intervened in Syria nine years ago

Dialogue has begun over a geopolitical flashpoint, and the two presidents of the Turkish-Greek island agreed to sit down again, but any progress will be painstaking

With just three weeks to go before the US presidential election, many critics see the letter as too little, too late

Now is not the time for political manoeuvring. We need leaders capable of putting Lebanon's interest first.

Uncoordinated fronts of so-called "resistance" have done little to slow Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Quite the contrary, it has only expanded the killing to include Lebanese.

The Hamas and Hezbollah leaders still alive are full of fighting talk. What world are they living in? Acknowledging reality is the first step towards finding the solutions their populations need.

When massacres are met with such indifference, silence is the only thing that seems fitting

A new and improved system should be centred on a Lebanon-first policy. Foreign agendas should never come at the expense of the Lebanese people.

Israel's PM has repeatedly chosen escalation over US calls to temper its actions. Biden's inability to restrain America's closest ally bodes badly for the region.

Hamas is all but destroyed and Hezbollah has been badly wounded, perhaps fatally. Meanwhile, the Houthis and the militias in Iraq have also been hit. Is Iran next?

Syrian refugees are confronted with two equally perilous choices—stay and relive the horrors of war in Lebanon or return to Syria and face the dangers that drove them to flee in the first place

Tehran has spent four decades building Hezbollah into a fighting force on Israel's northern border. It was Iran's first and best line of defence. Its crumbling might precipitate a change in approach.