Lebanon

What Do Red Teams Really Do?

Mark Perry paints a misleading portrait of how the U.S. government thinks of Hezbollah and Hamas.

BY BILAL Y. SAAB | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Is the UAE Banning BlackBerrys Because of Israel?

Seven months after it happened, the mysterious assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai is still causing fallout in the Middle East.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 10, 2010

The Silent Palestinian Refugee Crisis

Lebanon, which has long placed severe restrictions on the Palestinians in the country, may finally give them the rights they deserve.

BY TAYLOR LONG , ALISTAIR HARRIS | JULY 16, 2010

Resistance Land

Hezbollah's new tourist park, meant to indoctrinate visitors with the ideals of the Islamic Resistance, may be the latest sign that another war is on the horizon.

BY ANDREW TABLER | JULY 8, 2010

The Sheikh Who Got Away

How the United States got Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric dead wrong -- and missed a chance to change the Middle East forever.

BY DAVID KENNER | JULY 6, 2010

Postcards from Hell

Images from the world's most failed states.

CAPTIONS BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY/AUGUST 2010

The Not-So-Radical Roots of Miss USA

Rima Fakih is no Hezbollah hottie -- she's the living embodiment of Lebanon's cultural complexity.

BY HANIN GHADDAR | MAY 21, 2010

Missed Engagement

In Congress, vitriol and partisan attacks are dominating the debate over the next U.S. ambassador to Syria.

BY GARY ACKERMAN | MAY 10, 2010

Inside the Syrian Missile Crisis

News that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has provided Hezbollah with Scud missiles threatens to spark a regional conflict and poses a new challenge for President Obama's engagement policy.

BY ANDREW TABLER | APRIL 14, 2010

Did Hezbollah Kill Hariri?

A new tribunal is digging up old secrets about the Lebanese prime minister's assassination. And no one is likely to be happy with the results.

BY NICHOLAS BLANFORD | APRIL 1, 2010

Blind Man's Bluff

The truth about Iran is that we haven't got a clue how the Islamic Republic would respond to an attack.

BY BILAL Y. SAAB | MARCH 30, 2010

Ghosts of Beirut

How the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri transformed the Middle East.

BY MICHAEL YOUNG | MARCH 29, 2010

Hezbollah's Extreme Makeover

In Downtown Dahiyeh, the Lebanese Shiite militant group's suburban Beirut stronghold, paintball mixes with piety.

BY HANIN GHADDAR | MARCH 17, 2010

The Middle East's Dangerous Equilibrium

President Obama's first year of "engagement" has yielded little more than simmering crises and a frustrating diplomatic stalemate. But for all its pitfalls, the United States cannot quit the Arab world.

BY PETER HARLING | FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Food Fight

A look inside the Middle East's new weapons of mass consumption.

BY GIDEON LICHFIELD | JANUARY 15, 2010

A Boatload of Trouble

Think Hezbollah was tamed following the 2006 war? The recent seizure of a cargo ship full of weapons intended for the organization proves otherwise.

BY MAGNUS NORELL | NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Lesson Unlearned

Don't blame Hezbollah for the Marine barracks bombing. The United States is at fault, for becoming a combatant in Lebanon's civil war.

BY NIR ROSEN | OCTOBER 29, 2009

Syria Clenches Its Fist

Assad to Obama: Thanks but no thanks.

BY ANDREW J. TABLER | AUGUST 28, 2009

Can Abbas Save Fatah?

A convention in Bethlehem might be the Palestinian leader's last chance to save his dying party.

BY LUBNA TAKRURI | AUGUST 5, 2009

Caught in the Middle

For three decades, David Ignatius has talked to all camps in the fractious Middle East. Then came Davos, and an effort to "moderate" a conversation between irreconcilable sides on the Gaza war. The center not only cannot hold, he concludes -- it no longer exists.

BY DAVID IGNATIUS | APRIL 15, 2009

Think Again: Israel vs. Hezbollah

The recent war revealed neither a vulnerable Jewish state nor a Lebanese militia carrying the hopes of the Arab world. In truth, Israel could never have delivered the decisive victory its citizens expected, and Hezbollah has been left weakened and resented. The conflict was bloodier than anyone anticipated, but it just might set the stage for a new order in the Middle East.

BY NAHUM BARNEA | OCTOBER 10, 2006