Israeli forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah military group engaged in extensive exchanges of fire-on the morning of August 25 along the Israel-Lebanon border,marking an escalation in their longstanding conflict.In a statem...
Discourses are politically-oriented realities that explain their selective and instrumental nature.That means discourses are mostly(re)produced by the political actors,and they conform to the changing agendas of these...
This paper reevaluates the political and military significance of Hezbollah’s intervention in the Syrian conflict by exploring the organization’s strategies and dynamics and the outcomes of these in the post‘Arab S...
2016 National Social Science Major Research Program[16ZDA096];the project“The Trans-boarder Activities of Militant Extremist Groups in the Middle East and Their Threats to International Security”,a 2017 research project of Shanghai International Studies University[20171140039].
Since 2017,multinational joint efforts to combat the terrorist organization‘Daesh’(ISIS)have achieved crucial victories.As a regional quasi-sovereign state,ISIS is almost finished.For a certain period,a power vacuum...
From the beginnings of Wahabism in the 18th century to the so called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS) violence has occasionally been justified in the name of Islam, which is problematic for secular ...
From the mid 1800s,modern Lebanon began to emerge as a state.Lebanon,as“the eternal homeland”,had been accepted by the Maronites,the Sunnis and the Druze as a general principle and the foundation of nation-state con...
As clashes between Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah and Israeli forces threaten to drag the two sides into open war, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah made an appearance in a televised statement, saying hi...