List of Lebanon articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 That Time Reagan Explained Away the Murder of Americans Abroad With an Analogy About Kitchen Repairs
Watching Hillary Clinton’s grueling Benghazi testimony, it’s amazing how far the United States has come in facing — and fearing — threats to national security from the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Smugglers Are Vampires’
Death is everywhere in the impoverished, violent corners of Lebanon — but refugees who try to seek a better life in Europe often find themselves robbed blind or facing death at sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Rocks in Lebanon Have Eyes
The Lebanese armed forces have destroyed a spying device after discovering it in southern Lebanon, disguised as a rock.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘If They Want Me, They Will Call Me’
Riad Salameh, the governor of Lebanon’s central bank and mooted presidential candidate, sits down with Foreign Policy to talk political protests and the economic impact of the Syrian war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Could Trash Talk Bring Iran and Saudi Arabia Together?
A modest proposal for how Lebanon’s garbage could bring an end to the fiercest rivalry in the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Map Shows Why a Syrian Cease-fire Might Not Be as Good as It Seems
A cease-fire quiets the fighting in three Syrian towns, but does little to change the war's trajectory.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There’s Something Rotten in Lebanon
And it’s not just the fetid mountains of trash in the streets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Read the Departing U.K. Ambassador in Beirut’s Funny, Touching Farewell to Lebanon
Tom Fletcher says goodbye to all that.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Threat Boost Its Proxies?
Tehran's allies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen could reap the benefits of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Keeping Iran’s Feet to the Fire
The Obama administration has promised to counter Iran’s menacing behavior across the Middle East. Here's how it can reassure its anxious allies, and stop Tehran from using its cash windfall to fund terrorism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syrian War Takes Rising Toll on Hezbollah
As the Lebanese militia takes over the fight to save Assad’s regime, casualties are rising and so are the risks of overreach.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Departing Washington. Next Stop: Reality.
While U.S. officials are absorbed in abstract policy discussions, there are some aspects of the Middle East’s current crisis that you can only understand by going there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hezbollah’s Friends in Yemen Are Trying to Lure the Saudis Into a Ground War
The Houthi rebels are using the playbook that foiled Israel during the 2006 war in Lebanon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hezbollah Is ‘Stronger Than Ever’
The Shiite Lebanese group says it’s winning the battle against the Islamic State, rallying supporters to its cause, and fighting a war on terror.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lebanon’s ‘Democracy of the Gun’
In a crowded Palestinian refugee camp, a remarkable experiment is underway: peace between Hamas and Fatah. And all because they fear the Islamic State.
