Lebanon

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.

A confused tribunal process is a step toward justice in a case that has haunted the country for years.

Politics, corruption, and the pandemic impede reconstruction of the country’s lifeline.

A conservatorship is unlikely, but the world can work to nudge Beirut’s political class aside.

Massive foreign assistance is on its way to the country—but the government has forfeited any right to it.

A U.N.-backed tribunal convicts one Hezbollah member in the Hariri murder but fails to determine who ordered it.

Calls for fundamental political reform are gaining momentum in Lebanon after a deadly twin explosion this month laid bare government negligence.