Failing to Defeat Hezbollah, Israel & US Pressure Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa to Join War

Failing to Defeat Hezbollah, Israel & US Pressure Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa to Join War

Openly declaring its intent to illegally occupy southern Lebanon, Israel finds itself in a costly ground battle with Hezbollah, from which there are indications Syria may soon be roped in. This is born from the understanding that in order to successfully weaken the Lebanese resistance, the Israeli military must penetrate the Bekaa Valley area. Understanding the costly price of attempting to physically take all of south Lebanon militarily, both W…

The Lebanese temptation: How Syria is being drawn into Hezbollah’s war with Israel

In the shifting geometry of Middle Eastern conflict, moments arise when a state is not pushed into war, but quietly sucked into it. Syria today appears to be standing at precisely such a threshold. As the confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran unfolds in layered, ambiguous escalation, a new and dangerous proposition has surfaced in regional discourse: that Damascus, under the leadership of Ahmad al-Sharaà, could intervene mili…

Failing to Defeat Hezbollah, Israel & US Pressure Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa to Join War

By Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News | March 27, 2026 Openly declaring its intent to illegally occupy southern Lebanon, Israel finds itself in a costly ground battle with Hezbollah, from which there are indications Syria may soon be roped in. This is born from the understanding that in order to successfully weaken the Lebanese resistance, the Israeli military must penetrate the Bekaa Valley area. Understanding the costly price of attempting to ph…