Civil War

Hezbollah still strong enough to drag Lebanon into civil war, expert warns

“It is the people’s right to take to the streets and bring down the government in the face of the American-Israeli project targeting our institutions," said Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem.

A portrait of a Hezbollah fighter is seen damaged amidst the rubble of a building damaged by an Israeli air-strike in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh, on April 20, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Kim Aris, the son of Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, delivers a speech during a protest rally organized by Myanmar people residing in Japan outside Myanmar's embassy in Tokyo, Japan, December 14, 2025.

Myanmar to free more than 4,000 prisoners in amnesty

The aftermath of a strike on Al Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur, Sudan, March 20, 2026.

Strike on Darfur, Sudan health care center kills at least 64, including 13 children, WHO states

Smoke rises from a building hit in a bombing on March 11, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Israel declines Lebanon's offer for direct talks, sources say


Yariv Levin, like Menachem Begin, can stop a Jewish civil war in Israel - analysis

Like his literal godfather Menachem Begin, Yariv Levin has the power to defuse a combustible situation that could conceivably lead to internecine violence in Israel.

 Former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Justice Minister Yariv Levin. The two both had the chance to stop a Jewish civil war.

Who wants an Israeli civil war?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Millions feel targeted, collectively and personally, as Israel’s judicial pillars teeter and its political nerves fray.

 THOUSANDS OF protesters against the new Netanyahu government and its proposed reforms gather outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

It's time for Herzog to step up to the plate

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: With extreme voices dominating the public debate, the measured voice of the president needs to be heard loudly.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind him, approaches the members of the new government last month at the President’s Residence.

A civil war is not a joke – Israelis need to wake up - opinion

EDITOR'S NOTES: The thought that this latest experiment in Jewish sovereignty will be in jeopardy because of internal discord should shake us all at our core.

 Israeli Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2020. Are these images coming back?

The US's convulsive period of reckoning echoes the civil war - opinion

Thirty-five hundred Northern soldiers are buried in the Gettysburg cemetery – out of 23,000 Northern troops who perished in this costliest battle in the American Civil War.

 THE STATE of Pennsylvania Monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.

Hanukkah: Will Netanyahu's gov't cause Israeli civil war? - opinion

Will the theocratic extremism of Smotrich, Maoz and Goldknopf result in another civil war between the Jews? Will our enemies take advantage of our infighting?

 UTJ CHAIRMAN Yitzhak Goldknopf: Interested in finance, not mathematics.

Spain exhumes 53 bodies from Franco dictatorship's shallow graves

Years later, Spanish citizens still mourning deaths of loved ones from the Civil War.

 The remains of bodies that have been shot in 1937 by forces of dictator Francisco Franco are seen during the exhumation of a mass grave at Los Martires cemetery in Huesca

Lapid’s civil-war incitement won’t work - opinion

Lapid, Gantz and the rest of the “anybody but Bibi” politicians and pundits have been doubling down on the very behavior responsible for their poor showing at the ballot box.

 Israeli Prime Minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December05, 2022.

We're on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

The conference proposed an NIS 110 billion plan to fight crime and restore governance in the periphery.

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central city of Lod, May 12, 2021.

Iran accuses Israel, Western intelligence of planning civil war in Iran - foreign minister

The recent protests have turned into one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

 Demonstrators stand in front of a wall of the former U.S. embassy with anti-U.S. murals during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2021