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  • An Interview with a Journalist Who Was Tortured for Investigating Hezbollah

    After being held, beaten, and interrogated by Hezbollah, Rami Aysha was handed over to the Lebanese authorities, who released him on bail on trumped up charges of arms smuggling.

  • I Was Abducted by Hezbollah at Beirut's Bombed Iranian Embassy

    Lebanese army tanks flanked the road ahead of me and ambulance sirens pierced through the noise. Meanwhile, plain-clothed Hezbollah operatives, many holding AK-47s, and representatives of the Shi'a political party Amal looked busy as they barked into...

  • Twin Blasts in Lebanon Signal Intensifying Unrest

    Two car bombs rocked Tripoli—Lebanon's second largest city—Friday outside mosques frequented by Salafist preachers who have been vocal in their support of the Syrian opposition and critical of Hezbollah’s military intervention across the border.

  • Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut Bombed

    Thursday’s explosion in the Dahiyeh—an almost autonomous state-within-a-state in Beirut that is controlled by the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah—was the second of such attacks to hit the area in the last couple of months and signaled that Hezbollah's...

  • Renegade Clerics Are Battling Hezbollah in Lebanon

    Before the war in Syria, Lebanese Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir was a respected figure in his country. But as Syria's war has crossed over to Lebanon, Assir’s sermons have turned political, inspiring some Sunnis to wage war against Hezbollah.

  • Pop Stars and Radical Clerics Are Fighting the Army in Lebanon

    Lebanon is a madhouse. In the last two days alone, over 40 people have lost their lives in clashes between Sunnis loyal to hardline Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir and the interdenominational Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). This latest outburst of violence began on...