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Foreign Affairs Hezbollah: Down But Not Out Despite the gap in its command-and-control structure, the group has been galvanized by Israeli operations. Credit: image via Shutterstock That Hezbollah was dealt an unprecedentedly painful blow with the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah is not up for debate. While Israel succeeded in taking out the Lebanese movement’s former leader, Abbas al-Musawi ...

Foreign Affairs Why Self-interest May Stop the Mideast Blow-Up No party would be served by all-out war. Credit: image via Shutterstock The Middle East has been on tenterhooks over the last two weeks. Israel’s assassinations of the senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which occurred less than 24 hours apart, ...