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14 Points on the 14 Points: Assessing the Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement

Robert Satloff

How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation

The Wall Street Journal

Putin Is Losing the Fight to Keep Russians Offline

Mikhail Komin

The Trap Closing on Tehran

Walid Sinno

Cyprus: Hope returns, but peace will demand more

Yusuf Kanli

A New Banking restructuring Law for the Same Old System

Samara Azzi

Lebanon Is Not an Aid Case. It Is America’s Missing Mediterranean Partner

Walid Sinno

Lebanon’s Overloaded Towns: The Infrastructure Crisis Behind the Refugee Influx

Samara Azzi

HEADLINES

Cash Economy

Hezbollah Crypto Fundraising Probe Highlights Lebanon’s Expanding Unregulated Digital Finance Ecosystem

An investigation by Nominis and Coleven, a non-profit that maps the financial layer of terror networks, has uncovered a cryptocurrency…

USDT’s Rise in Lebanon Is Accelerating an Unseen Dollar Drain

The Stablecoin Paradox: How Crypto Is Powering Both Financial Freedom and Terror Financing in Lebanon

Fiscal Discipline for Some, Flexibility for Others: Lebanon’s IMF Dilemma

Lebanon Must Prioritise Depositors Before Politics Delays Reform Again

The Art of Deal with D-Evil

COMMENTARY

Trump’s Gambit: Force all cards open.

When The Founder’s House is Raided

Roaring Lion Plan Revealed

Why peace talks with Israel pose a threat to Hezbollah

Magazine

Turkish cannot go back to Arabic script

“We had a language which was very suitable for science; yet we slept over it one night and the next morning…

FROM CYPRUS TO GREENLAND: CAN HISTORY BE REPEATED IN A FRACTURING INTERNATIONAL ORDER?

Three years later: the rubble still speaks

Cyprus at a dual inflection point: Symbolism, fragmentation, and the politics of recalibration

Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’