Any Lebanese by applause? Lebanese.

ISIS s army of psychopaths and adventurers was launched as a startup by Sunni magnates in the Gulf who envied Iran s success with its Lebanese Shia proxy, Hezbollah.

It had lost traditional allies in Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah and its main backer, Iran, were motivated by two concerns fear of the next Israeli attack, which Hezbollah believes is inevitable, and concern over Syrian Israeli peace talks that, if successful, could leave Hezbollah without its main bridge to Iran. Hezbollah has been rearming and redeploying since the 2006 war the actions of May further consolidate its position in and around Beirut.

You go to the hotel and you check in. There's a Lebanese.

And Lebanese blogger Abir Ghattas sarcastically quips

And the Lebanese, brilliant Lebanese, Nemr Abou Nassar, we featured in our first tour, has just been performing in L.A.'s legendary comedy clubs.

After all, since the civil war began in 2011, Iran has provided essential financial and military support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime, while mobilizing its Lebanese proxy, the powerful Hezbollah militia, to fight against the rebels in Syria.

The Lebanese parliament recently voted to prolong its own term.

Hangovers don't last this long, jokes a local Lebanese vodka maker

Lebanese satirist Karl Sharo of the blog KarlreMarks quipped

The title reads, Yemen's Ansar Hezbollah humiliate Israel and America.

More than 3,000 Hezbollah fighters have died in Syria, and another 4,000 have been injured.

The Houthi's are often identified as Yemen's Ansar Hezbollah inside Iran.

Any attempt at disarming Hezbollah by the UN force would mean a war with Hezbollah (and with Syria and Iran in the background) 45 45 a task the UN force cannot accomplish.

This is what the Israeli government tried to achieve in Lebanon by smashing Hezbollah in 2006.

Lebanese Mohamad Najem, Social Media Exchange (SMEX) co founder, describes Al Shahbander's death as devastating

Antoine Ghanem (Arabic أنطوان غانم) (10 August 1943 19 September 2007) was a Lebanese politician and an MP in the Lebanese Parliament.

Lebanese politician and Druze leader Walid Joumblatt is on Twitter and had a hard time proving it really was him.

The Middle East is going crazy with the Arab Spring and revolution and all this. Are there any Lebanese here tonight?

Assad s other major regional ally, Lebanon s Hezbollah (which the US classifies as a terrorist organization) also supports the deal.

Émile Jamil Lahoud () (born 12 January 1936) was the fifteenth President of Lebanon, in office from 1998 to 2007.

In late May, the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, gave a speech that spoke volumes about the impact of the Syrian war on his organization.

Elie Saab (Arabic إيلي صعب) (born July 4, 1964), sometimes known simply as 'ES', is a Lebanese fashion designer.

There are three major Armenian dailies published in Beirut that speak on behalf of the three Armenian political parties represented in the Lebanese parliament.

Indeed, the US has ended up indirectly allied with Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy, which is fighting alongside Assad s troops against foreign jihadi forces.

Fairuz's first large scale concert was in 1957, as part of the Baalbeck International Festival which took place under the patronage of the Lebanese President Camille Chamoun.

Meanwhile, with the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians unresolved, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon represent a chronic threat of violent clashes with Israel.

Regional players like Turkey and Saudi Arabia adamantly oppose leaving Assad in power, as that would advance the interests of their rivals, Iran and Hezbollah.

On that cover you see Batman, Superman and a fully clothed Wonder Woman with our Saudi member of The 99, our Emirati member and our Libyan member.

In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star, he joked, maybe one day the tenth sequel of Will It Pass or Not? will be accepted and then we ll throw a great party.

Syrian militants, including Islamic State fighters, have penetrated Lebanon, threatening to rekindle the country s ethnic war and undermining Hezbollah s legitimacy as the guarantor of its security.

A zone of de facto control by Lebanon s Hezbollah and Syrian regime forces has emerged between Baalbek and Homs, straddling the Lebanese Syrian border.

A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti Western and opposed to an American inspired peace process with Israel.

The fusion of Iran s nuclear program (and Iran s hegemonic ambitions) with the situation in Iraq and with Hezbollah in Lebanon will lead to a New Middle East which, in all likelihood, will provoke a major confrontation.

On one occasion, Nouhad was heard singing by Halim el Roumi, head of the Lebanese radio station and a prominent musician in his own right (also the father of the famous Lebanese singer Majida Roumi).

A play that examines Lebanon s censorship system has been approved by the country s office in charge of artistic permits, a decision that could point towards a more open future for the country s writers and performers.

Around 60 members of Lebanon's Armenian Tashnag Party trapped the Turkish ambassador to Lebanon inside a movie theater on Wednesday, protesting the Turkish Government's official stance on the 1915 Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.

Indeed, in a statement released online on Lebanese Armenian Daily Aztag , the Turkish government was accused of trying to distract the world's attention from the Armenian Genocide Centennial, which will be commemorated worldwide on April 24th of this year.

Russia thus finds itself allied with Iran in supporting Assad s dictatorship, while Iran, in turn, is pursuing its own geopolitical interests by backing its Shia ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, for which the Syrian hinterland is indispensable.

Lebanon is too vulnerable to pressure from Syria and Iran, neither of which wants to see their local clients relieve the Israelis of the burden of a Lebanese front before their own grievances are addressed.

After 1982, when the Lebanese government failed to extend the ADF s mandate, it turned into a purely Syrian military force one that ended up committing some of the worst atrocities against Palestinian factions and refugees in the so called War of the Camps in 1985.

Instead, I took the view that, as long as these children were on Lebanese soil, we have a responsibility to provide them with a quality education in a structured environment, so that when they can finally return to Syria, they will have the skills and knowledge with which to rebuild their country.

She played the lead roles alongside singers actors Nasri Shamseddine, Wadih El Safi, Antoine Kerbaje, Elie Shouayri (Chouayri), Hoda (Fairuz's younger sister), William Haswani, Raja Badr, Siham Chammas (Shammas), Georgette Sayegh and many others.

This includes the core leadership of President Bashar al Assad s regime, which is now supported by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, as much as the ISIS, which is composed largely of non Syrian fighters who are unconcerned about rebuilding the country or safeguarding its people s future.