Israel backpedals, while Hezbollah grows bolder

Fifteen years of U.S. aid to ‘state security’ arms like the LAF and ISF have cost American taxpayers billions while harming Israel and strengthening Hezbollah

The recent murder of an Irish peacekeeper in southern Lebanon exposes the U.N. peacekeeping mission there as a costly failure

War fears are no longer alarmist as the terror group supplants U.N. forces, increases military readiness, and becomes more reckless on Lebanon’s southern border

The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.

Israel’s caretaker government is unequal to the strategic challenges posed by Team Obama’s policy of punishing friends and rewarding enemies

The country’s recent election was a masterpiece of counterfactual Kabuki theater—and there wasn’t a dry Western eye in the house

An unprecedented new salary assistance program for the Lebanese military is ‘cleverly’ structured to evade U.S. law

Eliyah Hawila fooled everyone, including his would-be bride and Brooklyn’s tightknit Syrian Jewish community, into believing he was a Jew. Now that the secret is out, the question is: Who is he, really?

The reeling regime in Beirut would like some of that magic Jewish money, please

It will start without warning. And the consequences are likely to be enormous.

The philosopher, activist, filmmaker, writer, and publisher, a prominent Hezbollah critic, was killed last week

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

How much should America pay to maintain the fraying fabric?

Iran’s plans for regional hegemony depend on being seen as the protector of loyal Shiite Muslims—but those are exactly the people leading mass protests against Iranian domination in Iraq and Lebanon