Hezbollah has brought Lebanon to the brink of outright disintegration, according to former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora: “Hezbollah is serving Syria and Iran at the expense of the Lebanese,” ex-Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told reporters. He said President Michel Suleiman should launch an initiative “to stop the state’s collapse...

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A columnist for a Saudi website argues that Hezbollah hasn’t simply exacerbated tensions between Shi’ites and Sunnis, but has also opened a rift within Shi’ism. The opinion editor of Asharq Al-Awsat, Mshari Al-Zaydi observes in This repulsive war has just begun: Now, Sheikh Qaradawi, who once described Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah as heroes, describes...

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Efforts are being made to bolster the contingent of UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights,even as it is being scaled down in the shadow of deteriorating stability between on the Israeli-Syrian border. Fiji, a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, agreed to send it troops to strengthen the...

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The six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council agreed on earlier this week to take action against Hezbollah loyalists who reside within their borders. The decision was made public in a joint GCC statement: The GCC will take measures against [those] in the GCC countries affiliated with Hezbollah in...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Wednesday that spillover from Syria’s civil war is threatening the increasingly fragile four-decade ceasefire between Syria and Israel. Observers are specifically raising alarms about the potential collapse of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) – the U.N. peacekeeping mission which has monitored the...

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The Lebanese army is threatening to retaliate against future Syrian attacks on Lebanese territory. The pointedly explicit warning comes after Damascus launched a helicopter gunship attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal and injured two: The Lebanese army has warned it will immediately respond to any future cross-border attacks...

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The Treasury Department this week designated four Lebanese nationals for conducting operations on behalf of Hezbollah in western Africa. The Iran-backed terror group is part and parcel of a network in Africa responsible for that the New York Times describes as “spectacular” state and non-state violence. Treasury’s statement on the...

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Analysts are warning that Hezbollah’s sustained involvement in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime risks pulling Lebanon into a sectarian civil war similar to the country’s devastating 15-year conflict. It is sectarianism, Shi’ism, but not Lebanonism. In the moment of truth the Hezbollah chose sect and religion over state,...

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A new study by the Intelligence and Terrorism Center, which is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, estimates that at least a hundred Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the battles in Syria. The study draws its information from open sources, mainly the Arab media. It provides...

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Arab media outlets are waging a war of words against Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group has committed the group to battling on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime until it defeats the largely Sunni rebels who have been seeking the regime’s overthrow. The group was instrumental in the Syrian army’s successful campaign to wrest...

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