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Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab ...

Israel will apply its updated defense doctrine, its regional superpower prism, of preventively downgrading enemy capabilities ...

Occasionally, it is useful to take a step back from the breakneck-speed flow of daily news with its never-ending fare of ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

Despite Israel's recent military gains and a rapidly changing Middle East, Lebanon remains wary of making peace with its long ...

American diplomacy has a unique opportunity to facilitate a lasting peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon, as the recent ceasefire and disarmament of Hezbollah have created a political vacuum ...

Internal paralysis, deeply entrenched feelings of ethnic identity and a political system rooted in sectarianism render normalization almost unthinkable.The post Why Lebanon won’t make peace with Israe ...