Hanin Ghaddar

US, EU: Take note, protect Bitar and Lebanon takes a step to overcome its crises

The clashes that took place in Beirut’s neighborhood Tayyoneh last Thursday exposed tensions about Judge Tarek Bitar’s investigation into the Beirut ...

Avoiding Assad strengthening power from feeding Lebanon’s energy crisis via Syria

This week saw Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad call Jordan’s King Abdullah II for the first time since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. The ...

Hezbollah’s Ordeal Unlocks New Possibilities

Despite the oil tankers coming from Iran, supermarkets with Iranian goods, and all the Iranian-made medicine flooding its pharmacies, Hezbollah is ...

The Taliban controlling Afghanistan is a headache Iran can do without

Iran is feeling the heat coming from Kabul. Divisions among political camps, contradictory statements, anti-Taliban protests, confusion and anxiety ...

Resigning from parliament will expose Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon

Put simply, Lebanon is an Iranian colony.As protest slogans indicate, the Lebanese people are finally aware of this reality. The presence and ...

Lebanon’s crises will feed the hunger revolution

With the US dollar exceeding the 15,000 Lebanese Lira threshold, people took to the street as inflation skyrocketed. Supermarkets shut their doors, ...

As the Resistance-Axis crumbles is Assad leaving the door open for peace with Israel?

Last week, Israel agreed to finance a supply of Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine to Damascus, to secure the release of one of their citizens being held ...

Hezbollah's fears laid bare

With the Biden administration’s outreach to Iran, and its readiness to resume negotiations on the nuclear deal, new regional considerations are ...

No compromise with Hezbollah please President Macron

The French President Emanuel Macron said last week that the French proposal was “still on the table” because there were “no other solutions ...

Reasons behind Hezbollah’s New Campaign against the LAF

On June 8, 2021, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah held the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) responsible for delaying and refusing to show the public ...

Hacking of Al-Qard Al-Hassan to expose Hezbollah’s economy

The hacking operation that recently targeted Hezbollah’s lending house, Al-Qard al-Hassan (a US-sanctioned financial institution) will probably have ...

Why Hezbollah is losing the support of Lebanon’s Shia community

Hezbollah’s adventurism in Syria and the wider region has alienated the support of many Lebanese Shia. The organization has also lost its military ...

With Bassil sanctions, Hezbollah has lost allies, Christian political cover

According to a recent statement by US Ambassador in Lebanon Dorothy Shea, the US sanctions against former minister and head of the Christian Free ...

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