The STL recently published the indictment, accusing four Hezbollah members of PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination on February 14, 2005, among…
Month: August 2011
By Clemens Höges In the end, the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime came quickly, after the rebels mounted a lightning…
Statement to the Syrian People In an unprecedented move over the past several days, Syrians in Syria and abroad have…
FATMA DIŞLI ZIBAK, İSTANBUL The Turkish government has adopted a decree to return all confiscated immovable property belonging to minority…
By Rania Abouzeid / Near Rastan The three motorbikes twisted around sharp turns, bumping over potholes, as their riders navigated…
For a party that repeats how unconcerned it is with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Hezbollah spends much time showing…
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 08/27/2011 8:00 AM University of Indonesia (UI) has come under a storm of protests…
It is often said in Lebanon that the Arab Spring wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the Cedar Spring.…
Kristin Diwan On June 23 Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah survived a parliament vote of no confidence, the…
Time Magazine, a very credible media source, published an article in which an interview by the Magazine correspondent Nicholas Blanford…
New Republic Online On Thursday, President Obama issued a long overdue statement calling for regime change in Syria, declaring that…
During a recent conversation with a Hizballah source, a TIME reporter found himself introduced to one of the four members…
by AFROOZ MAHDAVI in Tehran Evidence is piling up that suggests Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will order the…
Today, five months after the Syrian regime began its brutal crackdown on anti-regime protestors, President Obama announced that “the time…
Among the more dismal spectacles in an already dismal political landscape is that of Michel Aoun talking about Syria. In…
Read the Full Text: Hezbollah suspects to be tried over Rafik Hariri BBC- A UN-backed tribunal has published charges against…
An Interview by Bernard Gwertzman, CFR.org Despite objections from the international community, as well as Turkey’s stern warning that Syria…
What each person may be grateful for can vary quite significantly; of course, some factors might contribute to your sense…
POLICYWATCH #1840 Extreme violence is at the heart of the Asad regime’s response to popular protests in Syria. Its use…
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI BAGHDAD — As leaders in the Arab world and other countries condemn President…
What a difference three decades make. In April 1982, I was assigned to be the Beirut correspondent for The Times.…
Posted by Leen Zyiad The author is writing under a pseudonym. Hama haunts us Syrians; Hama shaped our fear. Every…
The intention of the proposed new Basic Law that would define Israel as ‘the national home for the Jewish people’…
Hurriyet Daily News, August 7, 2011 The Arab Spring has provided us with a new perspective: for people living under…
القاهرة (رويترز) – قال نبيل العربي الامين العام لجامعة الدول العربية يوم الاثنين انه سيلجأ الى الاقناع بدلا من “الاجراءات…
GVF — The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope, the Green Movement’s highest decision making body, has issued…
MEtransparent Exclusive Whoever enters Beirut’s “Dahieh” during the day cannot but notice Hezbollah’s discreet security presence. By nightime, the discreet…
Although the Syrian army has shown signs of fraying for some time, the potential for more serious fissures is beginning…
On Tuesday, as Syrian shells rained down on the besieged city of Hama, the White House took the opportunity to…
The “Syrian spring” did not want regime change. However, months of violence by Assad and his government, army and secret…
By Ulrike Putz in Jerusalem One atomic researcher after the other has died in a series of recent murders in…
MEtransparent exclusive Notwithstanding Hizbullah’s claims that “the blast that happened in an apartment in Dahieh’s Rouwais neighborhood, last friday, was…