Content tagged with “Hezbollah”
The tides may be turning against the Syrian regime as it starts to lose its friends, both regionally and internationally. As the Syrian revolution enters its third month, with the death toll...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests, United States, sanctions, Turkey, European Union The killing of al Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden has taken the world by storm and attracted mixed reactions across the Muslim world. In Lebanon, the overwhelming majority expressed relief at the...
Tags: Terrorism, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden, Fatah al-Islam, Islamism, Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt The saga of the government formation in Lebanon may be resolved this week, as Shia militant group Hezbollah and its allies may have reached an agreement on the allotment of portfolios. However,...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, elections The initial caution which marked the reaction of Lebanese politicians to news of the popular uprising in Syria began to dissipate this week, with the Hezbollah-backed March 8 coalition expressing...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests After months of deadlock in the formation of the Lebanese government, Prime Minister-Designate Najib Mikati yesterday presented to President Michel Sleiman the first draft of the Cabinet lineup. The...
Tags: Governance, Hezbollah, Syria The Bahraini and Syrian uprisings this week are proof to one thing in Lebanon - that all politics are local. The sectarian nature of the tensions in Bahrain struck a chord with the Lebanese,...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests, Bahrain Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that his regime will not suffer the same fate as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak because "Syria has no ties with Israel."...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, Israel, protests "The people want to bring down the arms," hundreds of thousands of Lebanese chanted during a mass rally last Sunday in Downtown Beirut, calling for the disarmament of Shia militant group Hezbollah....
Tags: Hezbollah, March 14, Cedar Revolution Six years after it was first launched and three days before a big rally on the anniversary of the Cedar Revolution, the March 14 coalition released a new political manifesto, recommitting itself to...
Tags: Lebanon, Hezbollah, March 14, Special Tribunal On March 14, 2011, the U.S.-Lebanon Dialogue Program at the Aspen Institute convened a panel discussion to address the challenges ahead of Lebanon on the sixth anniversary of the Cedar Revolution. “...
Tags: Middle East, Lebanon, Hezbollah 
