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…ation that pertained since the end of the cold war. It included, in addition to Iran itself, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, the Sadrist movement and other Shia Islamist currents in Iraq, Syria's Assad regime, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation. It appeared in rec...

…o reaction in Washington to this report. If there is going to be a resolution of the Syrian crisis without a decade of Lebanon-style war, then allies of the US will have to speak to someone of the calibre of Gen Suleimani, a far more important figure than Mr Ahmadinejad. Could t...

… bureau, Khaled Mashal. Turmoil in Damascus could deal Hamas a severe blow. On all these fronts -- Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel -- Syria is a key player. But its internal problems now threaten to reshuffle the cards, adding to the general sense of insecurity an...

…t Ben-Horn, the soldier who’d relayed the order from Motta to abort our second attempt to abduct the Syrian officers in Lebanon, and Amitai Nachmani, the officer who had 156 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028004

11 support is also building up for creating havens for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Moscow had also expressed concern that, with Assad’s demise, a new Syrian government might “ignore Russia’s interests in the Middle East.” Since the vetoes, however, the...

…not yet fallen. The Iranian nuclear programme is proceeding apace. Tehran's Hezbollah client is in effective control of Lebanon. But it does mean that in future the Iranian appeal is likely to be more decisively limited to areas of Shia population. The less good news, from Israe...

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…d States took no direct military action against Iran after it aided and abetted Hezbollah bombings against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, after Iran supported the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, or even after Iran supported the deadly campaign of improvised...

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… and saying I was sure that by the time I was married and had a teenage child, we’d be able to take a skiing holiday in Lebanon. We didn’t have peace yet. That might take time. But I felt that things were getting more normal. I began thinking what that would mean not just for Sa...

…d States took no direct military action against Iran after it aided and abetted Hezbollah bombings against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, after Iran supported the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, or even after Iran supported the deadly campaign of improvised...

…d to be working. The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement managed to precipitate Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000, and then avoided defeat in a subsequent round of fighting in 2006. In a poll of Arab public opinion taken in 2008, the three most popular leade...

…e Syrians, but fighting was continuing in a few parts of the Golan. In the western corner of the Heights which bordered Lebanon, several villages still lay beyond the Israeli advance. We got an order to see if we could take them. It took barely an hour, against no more resistance...

… Growing regional tensions will not get any better in 2016 THE SECTARIAN BALANCE OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST E bc J | LEBANON—w MOROCCO — JORDAN—~ as : re Deutsche Bank Francis J. Kelly Global Public Affairs [email protected] 15 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026809

…pposition’s umbrella organization. That could lead to violence spilling into neighboring countries, especially Iraq and Lebanon. Rather than speculating about a civil war, the Arab League and the international community should focus on the dangers that the Syrian situation poses...