Huda al-Husseini

Traditional wisdom holds that the current war between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, which began ten months ago, will now escalate significantly after Israel confirmed that it had been behind the assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of Hezbollah, near Beirut. The day after Shukr's…

Nothing illustrates the crisis that Hezbollah finds itself in better than the series of speeches that its secretary-general gave during Ashoura. His voice became so long that his vocal cords were impacted. Nasrallah, who had in the past threatened suffering, destruction, and doom if the Israeli…

Journalists traveling with US Presidential Envoy Amos Hochstein have reported that he did not want to come to Beirut during his recent trip to the region. He felt certain that nothing new would come of the visit, but senior White House and State Department advisers told him that he should make a…

On May 27, the AP reported that fierce clashes between the Taliban and Iran erupted on the Iranian-Afghan border on Saturday, killing and wounding troops on both sides. Tensions over rights to shared waters have been rising sharply for months, and after culminating in the recent border clashes,…

When I asked a friend about May Al-Rihani, who has presented her candidacy for the Presidency of the Lebanese Republic, he intuitively replied that if she had inherited the qualities of her paternal uncle Amin Al-Rihani, he would be delighted to see her ascend to this position after the political…

According to a recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Azerbaijan became the second-largest importer of Israeli weaponry between 2018 and 2022. Purchasing 9.1 percent of Israeli arms exports, it came second to India, which purchased 37 percent. The Philippines (8.5…

While they may have been minimal, US President Joe Biden’s visit last year did yield some positive results. In October, the United States brokered a landmark agreement that settled the longstanding maritime border dispute between Israel and Lebanon. The Biden administration has also sought to…