Having failed to secure a cease-fire, the White House now hopes for a working buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon's 2024 army is entirely volunteer-based and consists of "approximately 73,000 active troops (70,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 1,500 Air Force)", according to the CIA World Factbook. The LAF is ...

Cyprus has the largest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, but Lebanon comes in second. According to a 2020 estimate reported in the CIA World Factbook, Christians are 32.4% of the country's ...

While other groups disarmed after Lebanon's civil war ... said the group has 100,000 fighters. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook says Hezbollah was estimated in 2022 to ...

Hezbollah is preparing for a long war of attrition in south Lebanon, after Israel wiped out its top leadership, with a new ...

The CIA World Factbook says it was estimated in 2022 to ... formed in 1982 after Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon that year. It leads a multi-party alliance that holds just under half ...

As Israeli forces push deeper into Lebanon by land, they will be vulnerable to greater risks. And if the Israeli government ...

Israel-Palestine conflict is driven by three interrelated factors — demographics, statelessness and a deep-seated sense of ...

Before last week’s attacks, Hezbollah was widely considered one of the world’s best-organized ... This year, the CIA Factbook put its strength at around 50,000, though it’s unclear how ...