Lebanon

In Lebanon’s absurd economy, money’s value depends on whom you ask.

The country is almost bankrupt, but it still forks out on migrant workers under the heavily criticized kafala system.

A killing in Lebanon is a symbol of a growing regional backlash against sectarian politics.

The Biden administration and the French government must draw clear red lines, or the group will escalate its campaign of terror.

Hezbollah suspected in the killing of Lokman Slim but accountability is unlikely.

Signs are adding up that the explosives in Beirut may have been intended for Damascus—but Lebanese elites are trying to slow the investigation.

How business interests prevent Lebanon from rebuilding its infrastructure, government, and economy.

A State Department assessment warned the Syrian regime is worsening Lebanon’s economic collapse.

The country’s entrenched elite could help a new U.S. administration achieve its regional goals—while sacrificing its citizens.

Lebanon’s Saad Hariri is back by unpopular demand, IR scholars give Trump an F-, and Beltway insiders’ favorite board game.

An entrenched sectarian political system, self-serving leaders leftover from the civil war, and a protest movement more ambitious than organized seem to have set Lebanon’s revolution back where it started.

After a year of chaos, a familiar face is returning to the top of a country that desperately wants change.

From online to the front lines, the 7 million-strong Armenian diaspora is rallying to the fight in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Beirut could tap billions of dollars in natural gas revenue if it can resolve the border dispute.

It’s time to add an uncontrolled outbreak to the country’s long list of woes.

A country that previously took in refugees could become an exporter of people as government ineptitude and an economic cataclysm destroy all hope.

Why partition may be the only solution to Lebanon’s woes, what the bestselling book “Caste” ignores about India’s caste structure, and Britain’s distraction from its real economic problems.

Hezbollah’s dominance has deprived non-Shiite Lebanese of a voice in their own country. It is time to reconsider a century of consociational democracy and return to a form of federalism.

Sectarian tensions are nearing the boiling point—and what happens next is up to Hezbollah.

Most residents don’t have money for repairs, making them vulnerable to corruption schemes.