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Jan 24, 2025 | 
americansecurityproject.org | Matthew Levitt |Courtney Manning
share this Never in recent history has the Cabinet of the United States been led by as many Latin America experts as the Trump administration plans to appoint. At a time when foreign policy has its eyes laser-focused on the Middle East and Ukraine, strategic realignment with U.S. neighboring allies could open the United States up to a new source of security and economic prosperity.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Matthew Levitt
After a half century of Assad family dictatorial rule, Bashar Assad has fled and Syrians can finally celebrate the end of a horrific regime that gassed, starved and murdered its own people. Syrians have suffered terribly for many years, especially those tortured or disappeared by Assad’s henchmen, and the nation’s people need and deserve American support now.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mosaicmagazine.com | Matthew Levitt
On October 25 of this year, Israel carried out a series of retaliatory strikes on military targets in Iran. The Iranian supreme leader has made public pronouncements ordering his military to prepare a series of counterstrikes, though, as of this recording, those counterstrikes have not yet commenced.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Matthew Levitt
Even Iranian ballistic missile strikes targeting Israel cannot mask the fact that Hezbollah, the jewel in the crown of Tehran’s “Axis of Resistance”, no longer exists as we knew it. And since Hezbollah was the backbone of this network of militant proxies, Iran’s strategy of arming and deploying these groups throughout the region is suddenly at risk.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Matthew Levitt
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Neville Teller |Matthew Levitt
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God is a definitive, evidence-based examination of one of the world’s worst, most active, and most widespread criminal and terrorist groups.
Matthew Levitt is a counter-terrorism expert, and he is also an investigative journalist of the highest caliber.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Matthew Levitt
Earlier this year, when Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group based in Lebanon, decided to ditch cellphones in favor of pagers and handheld radios, it was trying to deny Israel the ability to hack and track its operatives. Instead of improving the group’s operational security, however, that move opened the door for an Israeli intelligence coup. By detonating those pagers and walkie-talkies last week, Israel severely disrupted the group’s operational capabilities at least in the short term.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
pilotonline.com | Matthew Levitt
After nearly 10 months of constant rocket and drone attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel and Hezbollah stand at the brink of full-scale war for the first time since 2006. But more dire than Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal is the threat that it will launch an Oct. 7-style ground incursion into Israel. The immediate crisis is a result of what Israel officials say was a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 Israeli Druze youths. Since the day after Hamas’ Oct.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
triblive.com | Matthew Levitt
After nearly 10 months of constant rocket and drone attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel and Hezbollah stand at the brink of full-scale war for the first time since 2006. But more dire than Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal is the threat that it will launch an Oct. 7-style ground incursion into Israel. The immediate crisis is a result of what Israel officials say was a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 Israeli Druze youths. Since the day after Hamas’ Oct.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
standardspeaker.com | Matthew Levitt
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