Amr el-Shobaki

Syria rejected the United States' request that Damascus intervene in Lebanon to confront Hezbollah. President Ahmed al-Sharaa expressed this refusal, affirming Syria's commitment to civil peace in Lebanon, wishing the Lebanese people well, and hoping that Lebanon's relationship with Syria would be…

The impasse of the conflict in Lebanon it will not end with a ceasefire, guarantees that Israeli aggression will not be repeated, and the implementation of the decision to confine arms to the state. It will also require, perhaps primarily, addressing the issues of Hezbollah’s constituency, which…

Israel did not stop bombing Lebanese territory during the ongoing negotiations between delegations from the two countries in Washington under American sponsorship, not even temporarily. It has undermined the Lebanese government, which is trying, through every “safe” means, to confine weapons to the…

The American-Israeli war against Iran has erupted. The scenes are reminiscent of the 12-day war, but we are also seeing new developments, as well as a chasm between rhetoric and practice. It is worth recalling that the American president had prevented Israel from eliminating the Iranian Supreme…

No one can read ISIS’s infamous manuscript “The Management of Savagery” can fail to see that the organization’s ideology built around a “project of vengeance” that has no coherent doctrine like those developed by other violent fundamentalist groups like al-Jihad and al-Jamaa Islamiya, or even their…

The Sydney attack that targeted Jewish Australian citizens that everyone condemned, Arabs and non-Arabs, Eastern and Western alike, and was denounced even by the staunchest supporters of the Palestinian cause because it assaulted civilian citizens solely because of their Jewish faith, after a…

The collapse of the Assad regime raised many questions on the Arab world and beyond. Conspiracy theories have been dug up to explain the speed of this collapse, but the sequence of events, the conditions of the regime, the opposition’s popularity, and the regional support it received all made clear…

Wars have erupted in several Middle Eastern countries, and Israel has gotten involved in all of them. It took on Hezbollah in Lebanon, eliminated most of its leaders, and dismantled most, though not all, of its military capabilities. Hezbollah remains at the center of controversy, both inside…

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared his opposition to disarming the party. “We will not allow anyone to disarm Hezbollah or the resistance. The idea of disarmament must be removed from the dictionary,” adding that these weapons had liberated the country and protected its…