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For Israel, ‘eradicating Hezbollah’ means community erasure for Lebanese Shia

Israel isn’t just eradicating Hezbollah in Lebanon, it’s collectively punishing Lebanon’s destitute Shia community, say Dima El-Ayache and Karim Safieddine. On September 17, Israel detonated thousands of pagers across Lebanon in public spaces, private workplaces, and homes, marking one of the biggest criminal attacks in recent Lebanese history. Before this …

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The Russian Armed Forces advance on Kurakhovo, Russian volunteers live “from two weeks to a month.” What happened on the front this week

In today’s summary: Russian troops are trying to simultaneously encircle Kurakhovo from the north and south and conduct frontal assaults on the city from the eastKonstantin Mashovets: in the offensive zone from the Pokrovsk to the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces are almost everywhere “bogged down in battles”A new …

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War in Dreamland

Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain. There are some bad ideas that just won’t lie down. They range from urban legends to political myths, from scabrous stories about individuals that should be true but aren’t, to historical events that shouldn’t be true, but are. Often, they are just nuisances, …

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Who Rules Southern Syria?

Iran’s alleged aim to establish a drug trafficking corridor targeting Israel and Jordan has only intensified local resistance, 963 media writes. In southern Syria, local factions in Nawa, a city in Daraa’s western countryside, have formed a joint force to “maintain security and protect the area,” according to Ahrar Horan. …

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