Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Hezbollah Fighters Sweep Over Much of Beirut's Muslim Sector."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Hezbollah Fighters Sweep Over Much of Beirut's Muslim Sector."
Unchallenged by Lebanon's army, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah routed Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-allied government and seized control of large swaths of Beirut's Muslim sector Friday in a telling demonstration of its military prowess. [ . . .]
"The government tried to show force by shutting down Hezbollah. Hezbollah showed force by pushing back the government," said Jon Alterman, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Middle East Program in Washington.
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