Lebanon

In response to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and extreme provocations in the wider region, the Middle East has seen the rise of resistance forces openly challenging US and Israeli aggression. The Western corporate media has attempted to reduce these forces to “Iranian proxies,” rather than legitimate resistance forces challenging...

Prof. Marandi of the University of Tehran says Israel can’t win a wider war against Lebanon and Iran. But these countries will have to respond to the recent terror attacks—and Israel’s war against Palestine may expand into a regional conflict nonetheless. Israel bombed Lebanon, assassinating senior Hamas political leader Saleh...

What is the “resistance axis” and why does it matter in Israel’s genocide on Gaza? What is it like on the ground in Lebanon’s south where Hezbollah has been fiercely confronting the Israeli army in support of Gaza? What are the red lines for Iran and for Hezbollah? Does Yemen...

The Lebanese resistance force, Hezbollah, launched missile attacks inside Israel borders last weekend in a show of solidarity “with the triumphant Palestinian resistance.” Will the escalating siege of Gaza ignite a wider war in the region? Omar Nashabe, a lecturer at the Lebanese University and the Editor of Alqaous.com, discusses. 

Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, joined The Freedom Side to discuss US hypocrisy in its unconditional support for Israel’s shocking aggression against Gaza, how this war impacts prospects for Saudi-Israel normalization, the potential entrance of Yemen’s Houthis in the fight, and how Russia views this escalation.

In 2003, Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, a Lebanese-American, was sentenced to 155 years in prison on allegations of “providing material support” to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah with funds garnered from cigarette smuggling. Characterized by prosecutors as an “enemy combatant” and “terrorist financier,” he was the first person in the United States...