Hanna Saleh

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stressed to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that the Lebanese people, “after paying the highest price in terms of their stability and security, have chosen the state,” which has linked the twin priorities of “Israeli withdrawal and the removal of illegal…

After a suffocating siege and a gradual encroachment, strategically placed Ali al-Taher ridge has fallen, in what appears to be timing that serves the electoral interests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. From the outset, it was evident that the fate of the Imad 4 tunnels would be no…

The disaster of the "Gaza support war" reached its peak when Hezbollah’s military media launched a propaganda campaign on August 16, 2024, titled "Our Mountains Are Our Storehouses," featuring a video of the fortified "Imad 4" underground military facility. The footage showed deep tunnels carved…

Today, August 4, marks six years since the explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut. It reduced the heart of the city to ashes, caused immense destruction, and killed hundreds. The tragedy placed justice at the front of every demand made by the capital and its people. Yet despite a series of…

The Washington summit between President Donald Trump and President Joseph Aoun reaffirmed Lebanon’s path toward independence after decades of occupation and subordination to an axis of destruction that exacted a staggering toll: mass killing, systematic devastation on the scale of more than one…

Every path toward restoring a capable and just state, one that protects its citizens and exerts absolute, unshared sovereignty, runs directly through the state's monopoly on arms and violence. The foundation for this remains the disarmament of Hezbollah and all illegal weapons, alongside the…

The American-Iranian memorandum of understanding and the "gifts" it presented the Iranian regime, have relieved the Resistance Axis. There was nothing contrived about it. It looked rather like a project for "regional peace" between the United States and its allies, on the one hand, and Iran and its…

Wars end at the negotiating table, and the current US-Iran conflict will be no exception. Despite the delay in signing the “memorandum of understanding” between the two countries, a deal that President Donald Trump has described as “great” and “wonderful,” while Tehran insists it has imposed its…

The new era, symbolized by President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, arrived with an agenda unlike anything Lebanon has known for more than a quarter of a century. The era of the catastrophic “people, army, and resistance” trilogy has ended. The Iranian regime, through its local proxy,…

In his first televised interview after the July 2006 war, Hassan Nasrallah was asked: “If time could be turned back, would you change what happened at Khallat Warda?” “Certainly not. We never thought that our enemy would go to war over two soldiers,” he replied. Shocked by the devastation caused by…