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Israel is effectively fighting a war on two fronts.
Militant: Hamas is believed to have teamed up with five different groups to launch its attacks on October 7.
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Israel is fighting a broad coalition of armed Palestinian militias in Gaza − and then there’s Hezbollah, just across the border in Lebanon.
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Some of the best analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza.
Peace plan: Lebanese caretaker prime minister, Najib Azmi Mikati.
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Lebanon has problems enough of its own without a major conflict on its border.
On 25 October, a poster in Tehran shows Muslim peoples marching with their national flags towards the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
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While Iran is wary of entering into direct war with Israel, Tehran has been lending support to Yemen’s Houthis, Irak’s Shia militias as well as the Lebanese Hezbollah.
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Countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Qatar all have a stake in the outcome of the war – but none want to be actively involved in fighting.
Supporters of Hezbollah have been rallying in Beirut in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Hezbollah dominates Lebanon’s sectarian political system, giving the paralyzed government little choice if the militant group chooses to join Hamas’ war against Israel.
UN peacekeepers patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border on October 12 2023.
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Hezbollah’s full involvement in the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict would likely open up a regional war.
Devastation: the blast killed 2018 people and destroyed a large area of Beirut’s port district.
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The charges against Hassan Diab and two other senior politicians will challenge the pervading culture of impunity in Lebanon.
A Syrian refugee boy jumps from a swing as he plays under cloudy skies at the public beach of Ramlet al Bayda in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2015.
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Many displaced Syrians responded to harsh border controls by passing through permeable borders, using alternative routes and relying upon the use of smugglers and social networks.
Mahdi Shaban, a Palestinian living in Gaza, paid for his master’s degree with earnings from digging graves.
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Political and economic forces across the Middle East and North Africa combine to mean well-educated young people spend years looking for work, which delays their independence and adulthood.
Lebanese voters wait to enter a polling station to cast their votes in Beirut during the 2022 Lebanese parliamentary election.
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The election of independent parliamentarians in Lebanon is a move away from sectarian politics, say experts.
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With fuel shortages and economic ruin causing havoc in the country, Lebanon is in dire need of help. But its supporters may have run out of patience.
One year on from the blast that destroyed Beirut’s port, popular anger is growing.
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Lebanon is in the depths of one of the worst financial crises in history.
One year on: Beirut’s port remains in a mess, much like the country’s economy.
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Lebanon is in trouble: a million Syrian refugees, one of the worst financial crises in more than 100 years and a corrupt and divided political system.
Palestinian university student Mira Krayem, 24, poses for a picture in an alley of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, on May 21, 2021.
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Paulo Freire’s concept of “conscientization”, or critical consciousness, helps us better understand the lives of young Palestinians, particularly those living in Lebanese refugee camps.
Tahrir Square, then and now.
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In the ten years since the Arab Spring, the countries affected have transformed completely. Here’s how.
A Syrian refugee holds up a sign with a portrait of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during a protest outside the headquarters of the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, demanding to be moved out of Lebanon, in September 2020.
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As countries around the world develop their own private sponsorship systems, they should acknowledge how elusive refugee status can be. Policy-makers should proceed accordingly.
French troops help unload boxes of French Red Cross humanitarian aid in Beirut on Aug. 17.
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As foreign aid pours into Beirut, its uneven distribution reflects and exacerbates the pre-existing class and race fissures in Lebanese society.
Anger in Beirut after two explosions on August 4 killed more than 200 people and injured more than 7,000.
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How can the international community help Lebanon’s people not its power-sharing regime?