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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Lebanon
    Lebanon’s Hizbollah and allies lose majority in election

    Blow to country’s most formidable political and military force as independents make gains

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Lebanon
    Patronage and threats favour Lebanon’s Hizbollah in key election

    Absence of an alternative means Iran-backed group set to dominate in upcoming vote, say experts

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Lebanon
    Disillusioned Lebanese lose faith with politicians ahead of poll

    Disarray in Sunni bloc creates risk of power vacuum that Hizbollah could fill

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    David Gardner
    Rich Gulf patrons turn the screws on a bankrupt Lebanon

    Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies are losing patience with a state under the shadow of Iran and Hizbollah

  • Saturday, 30 October, 2021
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Gulf states cut ties with Lebanon as diplomatic row escalates

    Saudi allies increasingly worried about rising influence of Iran-backed militant group Hizbollah

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    David Gardner
    Violence accelerates Lebanon’s descent into state failure

    Clashes in Beirut bode ill for a country where Iran-backed Hizbollah flexes its muscles

  • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
    Lebanon
    Deadly Beirut gun battle signals rising tension over port probe

    Investigation into devastating 2020 blast threatens to reignite civil-war rivalries after Hizbollah show of force

  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Lebanon
    Six dead in Beirut after snipers open fire on Hizbollah-led rally

    Worst violence in years as tensions rise over probe into 2020 explosion that devastated Lebanon’s capital

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    News in-depthLebanon
    Lebanon fuel crisis hits Hizbollah heartlands

    Support for influential Iran-backed paramilitary group and party tested by country’s economic woes

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    The discontents of Middle East democracy

    Struggles for political freedom in the Arab world bode ill for the global fight against autocracy

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Israel
    Israel hits back after Hizbollah fires rockets

    Tensions escalate as Iran-backed group targets north of country

  • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Lebanon’s year from hell: a diary

    Last year’s explosion should have been a nadir. Instead it was the start of a further descent into chaos

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    Lebanon
    EU agrees to target Lebanon’s leaders with sanctions

    Brussels applies pressure as Beirut power vacuum deepens economic and political crisis

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    ObituaryIran
    Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur: cleric and revolutionary, 1947-2021

    A central figure in Iran’s 1979 revolution who helped found Hizbollah before being sidelined by later politicians

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Lebanon
    Hizbollah critic Lokman Slim shot dead in Lebanon

    Publisher and activist who documented country’s violent past had previously received death threats

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Lebanon and Israel try to reach deal on maritime border

    Meeting comes as sectarian leaders in Beirut under pressure to form government

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    Lebanon
    US sanctions ex-Lebanese ministers accused of aiding Hizbollah

    Washington claims two political heavyweights engaged in corruption to help Iran-backed group

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Lebanon
    Lebanon’s political elite ‘in denial’ as government talks slow

    Hariri rules himself out of premiership with no credible candidate in sight for key job

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    David Gardner
    Hizbollah is on shaky ground as Lebanon implodes

    Tribunal ruling on Hariri’s killing and Beirut explosion add to country’s instability

  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    Rafiq Hariri
    ‘No evidence’ Hizbollah leaders were behind murder of Rafiq Hariri

    Tribunal finds one member of paramilitary group guilty over killing of former Lebanese leader

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    David Gardner
    Pity the ruined nation of Lebanon

    Beirut blast felt like a visit from the fifth horseman of the apocalypse

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    David Gardner
    Sanctions against the Assad regime are unlikely to help Syrians

    The supposed beneficiaries of the US Caesar Act will be pushed faster towards famine

  • Monday, 6 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Lebanon’s Hizbollah mobilises for ‘battle’ against coronavirus

    Paramilitary group seizes on Covid 19 crisis to show it is a force for good after countries’ mass protests

  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
    David Gardner
    A war of attrition in north-west Syria is spiralling out of control

    The skies above Idlib are crowded with rival warplanes and drones with 3m civilians at risk

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    News in-depthAmericas politics & policy
    US takes aim at Hizbollah’s sanctuary in Venezuela

    Campaign to isolate Iran-backed paramilitaries gains traction in Latin America

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