Lebanon

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  • The neocons' next war

    By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 3, 2006

  • Other fallout from the Israel-Hezbollah war

    An environmental disaster, a wave of cyberterrorism and a dangerous escalation of the propaganda wars.
    By Mark Follman August 2, 2006

  • The war between Bush and Bush

    In matters of foreign policy and war, it's like father, not so like son.
    By Mark Follman August 2, 2006

  • Losing hearts and minds in the Middle East

    The civilian death toll in Lebanon has been ugly -- but pales in comparison with the recent carnage in Iraq.
    By Mark Follman August 2, 2006

  • Lawbreakers, paradigm shifters, opportunity scoffers and letter writers

    Today's must-reads from TPMMuckraker, William Gibson and more.
    By Scott Rosenberg July 31, 2006

  • Bush: We have to destroy Lebanon in order to save it

    Plus: What the Israel/Hezbollah war has to do with 9/11.
    By Scott Rosenberg July 31, 2006

  • Fathoming the unfathomable: Bush's non-response to Lebanon

    Trying to figure out what the administration could be thinking -- four possibilities.
    By Scott Rosenberg July 31, 2006

  • The fallout from Qana

    Human Rights Watch denounces Israel for war crimes, while a halt to airstrikes lasted only a few hours.
    By Julie Flint July 31, 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

  • Negotiating the peace

    Diplomats must set aside ideology and focus on the resolvable Lebanese-Israeli dispute. Only then can the wider conflict between the U.S. and Israel, and the Arab world, be addressed.
    By Rami Khouri July 26, 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

  • Bringing people together

    Iraqis talk of heading to Lebanon to fight Israel.
    By Tim Grieve July 24, 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

  • Killing a nation, one airstrike at a time

    From Beirut to the Beqaa Valley to the south, Israel is methodically smashing Lebanon into the dust. A report from the ground.
    By Mitchell Prothero July 20, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Beirut remembers Sharon

    From massacre survivors to Christian allies, Lebanese speak out about the man who invaded their country.
    By Mitchell Prothero January 12, 2006
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