Two young fighters speak as Israelis and Lebanese mark ten years since war
(The Christian Science Monitor) Since the brutal 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah organization, which ended ...
Starvation in Madaya: How Hezbollah role in siege could hurt it in Lebanon
(The Christian Science Monitor) Broadcast images of emaciated children and tales of starving Syrians forced to eat grass and leaves in...
Fear and faith mingle after attacks in Paris and Beirut
The Sunday after the worst terrorist attacks in European history left at least 129 dead and 352 wounded in Paris, people packed into churches that are normally empty, lit candles at the sites of th...
In Beirut bombing aftermath, many ask why IS didn't strike earlier
(The Christian Science Monitor) Hezbollah's military support for Syria's regime, which is fighting a mainly Sunni Muslim armed opposit...
Syrian war: As neighbors seek border enclaves, a de facto partition?
(The Christian Science Monitor) The agreement between the United States and Turkey to establish some form of protected zone in norther...
How IS teaches hate: insights from an ex-al-Qaeda jihadist
(The Christian Science Monitor) The rise of the self-described Islamic State has been so quick and its behavior so brutal that in the ...
Shaken by Yemen, Lebanon works to keep its balance
(The Christian Science Monitor) Reverberations from a Saudi-led armed intervention in Yemen have reached Lebanon, where another potent...
Why the war in Syria could be making Hezbollah stronger
(The Christian Science Monitor) When Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah publicly confirmed in May 2013 that Hezbollah had intervened in Syria’s b...
How oil price slump is squeezing Hezbollah, Iran's Shi‘ite ally
(The Christian Science Monitor) Hezbollah, a Shi‘ite militant group, is facing a new enemy: financial austerity....
Lebanon's Druze, unhappily, are being dragged into Syria's war
(The Christian Science Monitor) Deadly clashes pitting Syrian Sunni jihadis against Druze militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have ...
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Why Hezbollah leader chose Shi‘ites’ Ashura to reach out to Lebanese Sunnis
(The Christian Science Monitor) With sectarian tensions soaring across the Middle East, Hezbollah's leader has used the Shi‘ite commemoration...