Hezbollah

Did Syria let Israel kill Hezbollah’s top commander?

by News Sources 04.29.2013

In an article on the life and death of Hezbollah’s top military commander, Imad Mughniyeh, Mark Perry writes: The Syrians always had a loveless marriage with Iran — and Hezbollah. Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had only reluctantly agreed to the deployment of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training units to the Bekaa Valley in 1982, [...]

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Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of Israelis

by News Sources 02.05.2013

The Associated Press reports: Hezbollah bombed a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, in the first major announcement in the investigation into the July 18 bombing that killed [...]

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If Assad goes, Hezbollah will be alone in the Levant — much to the delight of Israel

by News Sources 11.12.2012

Robert Fisk writes: Hezbollah was once the Lebanese “resistance”, the tough, courageous, self-sacrificing guerrilla army which drove Israel’s occupation soldiers out of Lebanon 12 years ago. Today, it looks more like yet another Arab “security” institution – or insecurity institution – as it flies drones over Israel and continues to support, to the increasing condemnation [...]

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Lebanese official: Hezbollah commander, fighters killed in Syria

by News Sources 10.02.2012

The Associated Press reports: A Hezbollah commander and several fighters have been killed inside Syria, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday, a development that could stoke already soaring tensions over the Lebanese militant group’s role in the civil war next door. Hezbollah’s reputation has taken a beating over its support for the Syrian regime, but [...]

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Will the Arab Spring destroy Hezbollah?

by News Sources 09.21.2012

Thanassis Cambanis writes: Hassan Nasrallah has always been more sophisticated than the caricatured nightmare featured in the breathless propaganda of Hezbollah’s many enemies. Even at his most noxious he usually managed to present himself as a man of principle. That’s why it was almost sad to see Nasrallah this week pandering like an old-time Arab [...]

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Video: Hezbollah ponders an uncertain future

by News Sources 09.04.2012
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Is Hezbollah ready for a post-Assad future?

by News Sources 07.18.2012

In a speech in Beirut today, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a nod to the Syrian people when he referred their “rightful demands” but the popular resistance leader did not acknowledge that the Syrians have to right to take up arms in pursuit of those demands. On the contrary he claimed that the war [...]

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Video: Julian Assange interviews Hassan Nasrallah

by News Sources 04.18.2012
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Hezbollah’s strained alliance with Assad

by News Sources 04.09.2012

The New York Times reports: Mazen, a carpenter who organizes protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, has torn down the posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, that once decorated his car and shop. Like many Syrians, Mazen, 35, revered Mr. Nasrallah for his confrontational stance with Israel. He [...]

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Assad’s Lebanese invasion

by News Sources 12.25.2011

Mitchell Prothero writes: The blacked-out sport utility vehicles entered the small mountain village of Arsal, in the furthest reaches of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, at midnight on a cold night late last month. The mostly Sunni residents of the town immediately knew what was happening: Hezbollah had come to grab someone from his bed. The target [...]

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Hezbollah and the U.S. government — tangled ties to drug cartels

by Paul Woodward 12.14.2011

Make of this tangled web, what you will. All I can say is that the key words — ties and links — don’t have a lot of substance. Lebanon is a small country inside which Hezbollah is the most powerful political organization. To identify a person or a business in Lebanon as having ties to [...]

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Hezbollah claims to reveal 10 CIA spies in Lebanon

by News Sources 12.14.2011

CNN reports: The militant group Hezbollah claims it has blown the cover of 10 alleged CIA officers working in Lebanon. In the latest round of an escalating spy war, Hezbollah’s media arm, al Manar, posted a video Friday accusing the CIA of running espionage operations from the diplomatic cover of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. [...]

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Hezbollah identifies undercover CIA officers in Lebanon in dangerous spy war

by News Sources 12.12.2011

The Associated Press reports: The militant group Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war. Hezbollah made the names public in a broadcast Friday night on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar. Using animated videos, [...]

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Iran captures ‘lost’ U.S. spy drone — the first remote hijacking?

by Paul Woodward 12.04.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: A drone that Iranian officials claimed to have shot down may be an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance aircraft that went missing over western Afghanistan late last week, according to U.S.-led forces in that country. “The operators of the UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] lost control of the aircraft and had been working [...]

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The undeclared war against Iran

by Paul Woodward 12.02.2011

Jeffrey Goldberg often sounds like he’s agitating for war on Iran, but even for impartial observers, there is as he notes, plenty of evidence that the war has already begun. Following a (perhaps not-so-mysterious) explosion on a military base last month that took with it the life of Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam — one of [...]

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Assad: Syria will shower Tel Aviv with rockets if attacked by foreign powers

by News Sources 10.04.2011

Haaretz reports: Syria will strike Israel and “set fire” to the Middle East if foreign forces choose to launch a military strike on the protest-ridden country, the Iranian news agency Fars quoted Syrian President Bashar Assad as saying on Tuesday, referring to remarks made by the Syrian leader during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister [...]

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Evidence that al Qaeda killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Part Two of an interview with Gareth Porter: Part One: See also, Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise and Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri, by Gareth Porter. For more background on the history of Lebanon, see the RealNews series parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten.

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Syrian opposition decides to take up arms against Assad regime

by News Sources 08.28.2011

Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports: The leader of the Revolutionary Council of the Syrian Coordination Committees, Mohammad Rahhal, said in remarks published Sunday that the council took the decision to arm the Syrian revolution. Since mid-March pro-democracy protests have engulfed most of Syria calling for political and economic reforms as well as for the ousting of Syrian [...]

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Nasrallah implies Israel behind Hariri murder

by News Sources 07.03.2011
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The Arab Spring exposes the identical hypocrisy of both the US and Hassan Nasrallah

by News Sources 06.23.2011

Hamid Dabashi writes: Hassan Nasrallah is in trouble. This time the troubles of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, which were hitherto the source of his strength, are not coming from Israel, or from the sectarian politics of Lebanon. Seyyed Hassan’s troubles, which this time around are the harbingers of his undoing as an outdated fighter, [...]

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Hezbollah and the Arab revolution

by News Sources 06.22.2011

Larbi Sadiki writes: Is there something amiss within Hezbollah? It rose from the ignominy of oblivion, feudal exploitation, sectarian bias, and overall marginalisation to occupy political centre stage. In fewer than thirty years it converted Shia socio-political weightlessness into a counterbalancing political gravity. It stood up against the Israeli Goliath. It survived the “incendiaries” dropped [...]

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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declaration of solidarity with the Arab democratic revolution

by News Sources 03.21.2011
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Obama weighs talking to the Taliban, Hezbollah

by News Sources 03.18.2011

David Ignatius writes: In a rapidly changing Islamic world, the Obama administration is weighing how best to talk with adversaries such as the Taliban and, perhaps, Hezbollah. One model for the administration, as it thinks about engagement of enemies, is the British process of dialogue during the 1990s with Sinn Fein, the legal political wing [...]

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International alliance forming to stop Gaddafi

by News Sources 03.16.2011

Libya’s Deputy Permanent UN Representative warns that a convoy of 400 military vehicles are headed to destroy Ajdabiya and that the UN must intervene in the coming hours. The New York Times reports: The prospect of a deadly siege of the rebel stronghold in Benghazi, Libya, has produced a striking shift in tone from the [...]

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