Hezbollah

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  • Still looking for that pony

    Bush says the crisis in the Middle East is just a "clash of governing styles."
    By Tim Grieve July 28, 2006

  • Watching Beirut die

    We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city's newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear -- again.
    By Anthony Bourdain July 28, 2006

  • The "hiding among civilians" myth

    Israel claims it's justified in bombing civilians because Hezbollah mingles with them. In fact, the militant group doesn't trust its civilians and stays as far away from them as possible.
    By Mitch Prothero July 28, 2006

  • Is Israel facing a quagmire?

    As many as 14 Israeli troops were killed by Hezbollah forces Wednesday, raising the specter of a grinding guerrilla war Israelis don't want.
    By Matthias Gebauer July 27, 2006

  • Domino diplomacy

    Condi Rice and Co. are using the conflict in Lebanon as a proxy war with Iran that will somehow rescue the U.S. from failure in Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 27, 2006

  • Bush's diplomacy allergy

    As war in the Middle East rages, even some conservatives are calling for the U.S. to start talking to its enemies, not just its friends.
    By Laura Rozen July 25, 2006

  • Why Israelis believe they're right

    Much of the world sees the Israeli attacks on Lebanon as disproportionate. But for the vast majority of Israelis, including some former doves, the war against Hezbollah is deterrence in self-defense.
    By Samuel G. Freedman July 25, 2006

  • And in other news, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength

    The Post on Bush: Mideast violence is the path to peace.
    By Tim Grieve July 21, 2006

  • Hunkered down in Israel, again

    Faced with Hezbollah's steady rocket attacks, Israelis remaining near the vulnerable northern border return to bunker life.
    By Matthias Gebauer July 21, 2006

  • The Persian game

    Masters of ambiguity, Iran's leaders don't want war with Israel and the U.S. -- and are more alarmed by the Lebanese crisis than the West realizes.
    By Afshin Molavi July 20, 2006

  • The showdown

    Israel has decided to put a final stop to Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah -- and for once the world supports it. But even if it wins this war, another is probably coming.
    By Aluf Benn July 19, 2006

  • Israel's maximal option

    Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.
    By Juan Cole July 19, 2006

  • First time for everything

    Karen Hughes once said she'd never heard George W. Bush utter a profanity.
    By Tim Grieve July 17, 2006

  • Is freedom still marching?

    A year ago, the president celebrated "remarkable developments" in the Middle East. Have they all gone to "shit"?
    By Tim Grieve July 17, 2006

  • We love it when a plan comes together

    The Bush administration succeeds by failing.
    By Tim Grieve July 17, 2006

  • Quote of the Day

    George W. Bush on the crisis in the Middle East.
    By Tim Grieve July 17, 2006

  • The Mideast death dance

    Hamas and Hezbollah, Lebanon and Palestine, Syria and Iran, the U.S. and Israel: Unless these four pairs of actors turn away from their failed policies, the Middle East will sink further into violence and despair.
    By Rami G. Khouri July 15, 2006

  • Bush to Israel: Nothing

    Stay the course or stay away?
    By Tim Grieve July 14, 2006

  • Lebanon pays for Hezbollah's sins

    A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
    By Mitchell Prothero July 14, 2006

  • Hezbollah on the Tigris?

    Like the militant Lebanese group, fiery cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr is using both guns and butter to seize power in Iraq.
    By David Enders May 8, 2006

  • Countdown to the Iranian bomb

    A top proliferation expert says the real danger isn't a nuclear attack by Iran, but a Middle East arms race.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 26, 2006

  • The Middle East's real problem: The mafia

    How can democracy take root in countries run by capi di tutti capi? And after the Iraq debacle, can Bush really be considering making Syria, too, an offer it can't refuse?
    By Ferry Biedermann June 11, 2005

  • Bankrolling the holy war -- from Los Angeles

    Most Americans would regard Hezbollah as a distant terrorist group -- not one with a sizeable network of criminal operatives now supporting it from inside the United States.
    By Mark Follman May 26, 2005

  • Twisted "Cedar"

    As crucial elections approach, the Lebanese opposition is divided about its next move. Are these differences merely tactical -- or could they plunge Lebanon back into chaos?
    By Mitchell Prothero March 23, 2005

  • Not the "people power" Bush had in mind

    Sending hordes of supporters into the Beirut streets, Hezbollah upstaged the opposition. But can the militant group decide what part it wants to play?
    By Mitchell Prothero March 11, 2005
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