When Israel gives up the initiative, Hezbollah takes it
Diplomatic restraint is narrowing Israel’s freedom of action before its enemies have been disarmed.
Diplomatic restraint is narrowing Israel’s freedom of action before its enemies have been disarmed.
The faction is “an extension” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and is “not a Lebanese resistance movement,” a State Department official said.
Damascus’s campaign against Iranian arms routes and Hezbollah offers Israel a strategic opening. Syria’s fragility, Turkey’s military and pressure for an IDF withdrawal make this convergence…
When asked on the likelihood of Hezbollah disarming, Fuani showed optimism, citing the aftermath of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's successful overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
The Treasury Department redesignated the group "for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force," according to a statement.
The U.S. Treasury said the network moved up to "hundreds of millions of dollars" to Hezbollah through couriers traveling on commercial flights between Lebanon, Iran, Turkey…