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الوكالة الوطنية للإعلامNNA - The Israeli enemy on Thursday conducted a sweeping operation with machine gun fire towards the southern Lebanese towns of Kfarkila and Al-Wazzani.  In a separate incident, Isra

The article analyzes Hamas's venture into international terrorism, comparing it to the influential legacy of Palestinian groups and their global impact, supported historically by Arab states and the USSR.

“Doesn't it remind you of the Hamidiyah market (Syria)?” asks a visitor in the town of Bar Elias, located in eastern Lebanon. The visitor is struck by the bustling market and the diverse crowd of Syrians—traders, workers, visitors, and investors. This has turned the town, near the eastern border with Syria, into the “capital of Syrian displacement” in the small Mediterranean nation. Bar Elias has earned the nickname due to the large number of Syrians living in and around the town.

These days, the residents of South Lebanon see Hezbollah as a shattered shield. After the shadow of the liberation narrative that had been imposed on everyone and embellished by Hezbollah loomed large for over two decades, 2000, the year Israel withdrew from the country, now seems like a long, long time ago.

Without a president for 14 months, the country of the cedars is undergoing a socio-political process of implosion. According to one (alarming) study, Syrian refugees who entered in 2012 could, within 15 years, account for half the population. And at the southern gate, a front has opened up between Hezbollah, a state within a state, and Israel.