Hizballah to side with al Asad?
listen to ‘Hezbollah on the verge of more explicit backing for Assad after death of commander in Syria, says analyst Nicholas Noe’ on Audioboo Not sure if that’s going to embed properly, but here, at...
View ArticleHizballah takes responsibility for drone downed in Israel
Hizballah takes responsibility for drone downed in Israel This is a very neat little trick: The leader of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has said that his organisation launched an Iranian-built drone...
View ArticleProxy wars in the Levant: will Lebanon get sucked into Syria’s mess?
Uh oh. Termoil in Beirut after the Ashrafiyeh car bombing: The military raids, which began around 10 a.m., were heavily concentrated in the areas of Tayyouneh, Qasqas and Beshara al-Khoury. The Army...
View ArticleKeeping Israel from replaying its mistakes during the Lebanese Civil War in...
Here is an op-ed in the NYT saying, essentially, that to avoid another mess like Israel’s invasion and occupation of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil war, Israel and the Syrian anti-regime forces...
View ArticleAl Asad threatens to make the Golan a major battlefront, tries to misdirect...
Oh, Bashar, sometimes you are so obvious it’s almost embarrassing. From The Australian: SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad has threatened to open “a new front” against Israel in the Golan Heights, as...
View ArticleSyrian refugees in Lebanon and the inevitable spread of proxy wars
A larger version of the image can be found here. International Crisis Group has a new report out on Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and it’s not looking good. Syria’s conflict is dragging down its...
View ArticleProxy wars: Syria’s war continues to spill into Lebanon
Image from Vice Okay, so Vice is not at all my favorite source, but proxy wars are kind of my thing (and I appreciate that they used the term!), so here we go. Over the past eight days, fighting...
View ArticleHizballah assassination might tell us something about the regional balance
Hassan al Laqis; photo from the Hizballah Media Relation Office Hey, for once a headline that actually makes sense! From the WSJ: Killing of Hezbollah commander offers fresh sign of Lebanon as site of...
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