No Olympic truce in the Middle East
After Fouad Cheker, head of Hezbollah's armed operations, killed on July 30, 2024, it is now Ismaël Hanyeh, the leader of Hamas abroad, who was eliminated today, July 31, 2024, by Israel. The first was [...]
Assad does not want the majority of Syrian migrants to return
Article published in L'Orient le Jour, 25 April 2024 by Jeanine Jalkh Fabrice Balanche, a lecturer at Lyon II University and expert on Syria, spoke to L’Orient-Le Jour about Syrian migrants in Lebanon, a topic explored in [...]
Syria Lebanon: Sectarianism and Power
Syria and Lebanon are now two states under foreign influence, fragmented by ethnic, religious and tribal antagonisms that seem irreducible. Beyond international geopolitics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the causes of their respective failures are also [...]