Hezbollah

Its current gratuitously destructive approach will neither eliminate Hezbollah militarily nor empower Lebanese leaders politically to pursue cooperation and peace

Understanding the Yemen-based militia now exerting control over international shipping in the Red Sea means understanding its roots, context, and regional alliances

The experience of Lebanon and Syria in the 1970s is more useful as an analytical lens for understanding the thinking behind US calls for al-Sharaa to intervene than as a practical blueprint for action

Syria's new post-Assad leadership is working to sever Iran's reach by shoring up its borders with Lebanon and Iraq, and by closing in on cells operating in the country

An Israeli diplomat recently told Lebanese Shiites that Israel did not see them as the enemy, but it is a difficult argument to make given the death and destruction. Is there a better way?

Al Majalla visits an area where the locals refused to leave their homes to be used by Hezbollah, so they blocked roads, invited the army in, and coordinated with neighbouring areas

Under US tutelage, Tel Aviv and Beirut have agreed to work together to disarm Hezbollah and gradually replace Israel's army with Lebanon's in the south

Syrian military intervention in Lebanon is nowhere near a priority as Damascus grapples with enormous economic, social, and political obligations at home