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Mohammad I. Aslam is a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at the Department of Middle-East & Mediterranean Studies, King's College London. He can be reached at mohammad.aslam@kcl.ac.uk

Hezbollah’s Syrian Equation

It’s perhaps just a case of terrible inertia on the part of those gunning for a now Jihadist-driven rebel victory over the incumbent regime in Syria. …

May 18, 20134 CommentsRead More

Hezbollah: Subaqueous Endeavors

The simmering potential for another round of deadly battles between Israel and Lebanon’s powerful Islamic resistance movement, Hezbollah, has never quite faded away – despite a devastating war in 2006.…

February 2, 20135 CommentsRead More

Covert Wars: Hezbollah’s Outsmarting of the CIA

If the most important instruction of a clandestine intelligence organization is to remain anonymous, at least in terms of operational practice, then Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement recently had a field day…

December 23, 2011Comments OffRead More

Arab League: The Argot of Feud Diplomacy

It is very difficult to discern when, if you are feuding, you actually relinquish friendship. That is, if you actually can. The 22-member Arab League, which was created in 1945[1]in…

August 15, 201110 CommentsRead More

Jordan’s Mukhabarat: Inside the Snakepit

There is an old saying in the Arab world: An individual must be very naïve if he believes in the concept of ‘voluntary admissions’ by political prisoners—admissions which are extracted…

August 3, 201144 CommentsRead More