Opinion

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.

Iran's second missile salvo into Israel and the latter's invasion of Lebanon is seemingly tearing up long-established rules of engagement. Al Majalla's cover story unpacks these seismic developments.

Sectarianism has infected every aspect of the state, effectively paralysing it. Lebanon desperately needs a unifier, but none are i

Many Israelis see their success against Hezbollah in Lebanon as an opportunity to reshape the Middle East

Lebanon's history has shown us that it's a country that manages to bounce back from every disaster

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq appears more capable of inflicting damage on Israel than ever before. But as the ongoing escalation in Lebanon shows, Israel is determined to route out all threats.

With Israel having killed so many Hezbollah leaders, including the influential Hassan Nasrallah, Iran's joystick controlling Beirut has been severed. Eyeing a power vacuum is Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

In the months leading up to Israel's war on Lebanon, there were warnings of what would come, but empty sloganeering gave a false sense of security

Now more than ever, world powers need to stop putting roadblocks in the UN's way so that it can carry out its mandate: to prevent conflicts from turning into global conflagrations

With corruption rife and elections looming, power struggles in Baghdad have only intensified. Instead of being impartial, hijacked state institutions foment even more strife.

With the help of Joe Biden, these two foes could agree a deal that withdraws Hezbollah from southern Lebanon in return for peace. A similar deal was struck in 2006. But that was then...

Israel has murdered, maimed and displaced us, but so has Hezbollah. How dare you ask Syrians to support a group that has inflicted so much pain on them for more than a decade?