List of Lebanon articles
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ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images Food Fight
A look inside the Middle East's new weapons of mass consumption.
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MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images A Boatload of Trouble
Think Hezbollah was tamed following the 2006 war? The recent seizure of a cargo ship full of weapons intended for the organization proves otherwise.
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OUSSAMA AYOUB/AFP/Getty Images Lesson Unlearned
Don't blame Hezbollah for the Marine barracks bombing. The United States is at fault, for becoming a combatant in Lebanon's civil war.
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Think Again: Israel vs. Hezbollah
The recent war revealed neither a vulnerable Jewish state nor a Lebanese militia carrying the hopes of the Arab world. In truth, Israel could never have delivered the decisive victory its citizens expected, and Hezbollah has been left weakened and resented. The conflict was bloodier than anyone anticipated, but it just might set the stage for a new order in the Middle East.
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Caught in the Middle
For three decades, David Ignatius has talked to all camps in the fractious Middle East. Then came Davos, and an effort to "moderate" a conversation between irreconcilable sides on the Gaza war. The center not only cannot hold, he concludes -- it no longer exists.
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LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images Syria Clenches Its Fist
Assad to Obama: Thanks but no thanks.
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ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images Can Abbas Save Fatah?
A convention in Bethlehem might be the Palestinian leader's last chance to save his dying party.