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As Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, stood before the camera for a televised address on Thursday, the unmistakable sound of Israeli jets roaring overhead delivered a stark warning. This sonic disruption served not only to interrupt his speech but also to instill fear in many viewers across Lebanon, a message underscored by the previous week’s bombings targeting Hezbollah's communications systems. The blasts resulted in numerous fatalities, left countless individuals injured, and reverberated across the nation,…

Libya's ceasefire has been held since it was reached in October, and rival parties continue talks at the negotiating table, but the road to a permanent political solution that will end the nearly decade-long civil war and bring peace to the country still hangs in the balance due to deep divisions over a transition leader. The UN has "succeeded in accelerating the pace of inter-Libyan negotiations by exerting pressure on all parties, as much at the military level as the political level," Miloud el-Hajj,…