Hussein Dakroub| The Daily Star BEIRUT: A bomb ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Damascus Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding up to 20, in an attack linked to the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Islamist militants who have vowed to punish the party for its involvement in the… اقرأ المزيد
Strange bedfellows of 2015: As the Obama administration pushes toward a major new trade agreement in Asia this spring, it is developing two unlikely allies – Chinese officials abroad, who are signaling that they want in, and Republicans in Congress, who appear willing to support what would be one of President Barack Obama’s biggest successes.… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned Friday that his group would respond to any Israeli attack at any time and in any place. The resistance party chief said that the Israeli airstrike that killed six Hezbollah fighters and a top Iranian general in Syria’s Golan Heights this month has shattered the rules of engagement… اقرأ المزيد
The predictability of the sequence of events between Israel and Hezbollah in the last two weeks played out like clockwork. While there are some unknown motivating factors about the Israeli air attack in the Golan Heights on Jan. 18 that killed six Hezbollah men and an Iranian general, there was no such imprecision about the… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT/ABBASIEH, Lebanon: As the guns fell silent and calm returned to both sides of the Lebanese-Israeli border Thursday, a day after a Hezbollah attack killed at least two Israeli soldiers in the Shebaa Farms, Israel and the party exchanged indirect messages that averted a full-scale military confrontation for now. Lebanese troops and U.N.… اقرأ المزيد
Mohammed Zaatari| The Daily Star MARJAYOUN, Lebanon: Israel appeared hesitant to escalate a standoff with Hezbollah after the party’s guerrillas killed at least two soldiers in an ambush in Lebanon’s occupied Shebaa Farms Wednesday in response to the Jewish state’s deadly strike in Syria last week. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for “maximum calm… اقرأ المزيد