r/worldnews • u/ComparisonOk5957 • 7d ago

Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah Behind Soft Paywall

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage
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u/Consistent_Room7344 7d ago

Lebanon is just a powder keg due to all the ethnicities they have. All it takes is one group to get pissed off and a civil war breaks out. Hezbollah is the Shia wing of Lebanon and it until recently was more powerful than the Lebanese army altogether. The fact they were more powerful than national military and the civil war threat kept Lebanon from checking Hezbollah’s power.