Why Nasrallah Will Never Hand Over the 4 Suspects to STL?
The STL recently published the indictment, accusing four Hezbollah members of PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination…
Monthly Archives: August, 2011
How Tripoli Was Taken: The Lightning Advance That Ended Gadhafi’s Rule
By Clemens Höges In the end, the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime came quickly, after…
Syria LCCs rejects calls to take up arms or for international military intervention
Statement to the Syrian People In an unprecedented move over the past several days, Syrians…
Turkey: Gov’t gives go ahead for return of seized property to non-Muslim foundations
FATMA DIŞLI ZIBAK, İSTANBUL The Turkish government has adopted a decree to return all confiscated…
Syria’s Most Wanted: A Glimpse of Life on the Run with Army Defectors
By Rania Abouzeid / Near Rastan The three motorbikes twisted around sharp turns, bumping over…
Hezbollah faces its trial with errors
For a party that repeats how unconcerned it is with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon,…
Honorary degree for Saudi King draws fury in Indonesia
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 08/27/2011 8:00 AM University of Indonesia (UI) has come…
Independence 2011?
It is often said in Lebanon that the Arab Spring wouldn’t have happened if it…
Kuwait’s impatient youth movement
Kristin Diwan On June 23 Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah survived a parliament…
Hezbollah’s Internal Problems: A Vision of a Party Drunk with Power
Time Magazine, a very credible media source, published an article in which an interview by…
FIVE THINGS OBAMA CAN (AND SHOULD) DO TO TOPPLE ASSAD
New Republic Online On Thursday, President Obama issued a long overdue statement calling for regime…
Accused Hizballah Man Speaks (Time Magazine)
During a recent conversation with a Hizballah source, a TIME reporter found himself introduced to…
Is the Arrest of Ahmadinejad Imminent?
by AFROOZ MAHDAVI in Tehran Evidence is piling up that suggests Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah…
Three Ways to Help Push Assad Aside
Today, five months after the Syrian regime began its brutal crackdown on anti-regime protestors, President…
The maestro of envy
Among the more dismal spectacles in an already dismal political landscape is that of Michel…
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Full Indictment- The Prosecuter V. Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Salam Jamil Ayyash, Hussein Hassan Oneissi, and Assad Hassan Sabra
Read the Full Text: Hezbollah suspects to be tried over Rafik Hariri BBC- A UN-backed…
Cranking Up Pressure on Syria (Featuring Andrew J. Tabler)
An Interview by Bernard Gwertzman, CFR.org Despite objections from the international community, as well as…
What is Bartholomew grateful for?
What each person may be grateful for can vary quite significantly; of course, some factors…
A willingness to kill: Repression in Syria
POLICYWATCH #1840 Extreme violence is at the heart of the Asad regime’s response to popular…
Iraqi Leader Backs Syria, With a Nudge From Iran
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI BAGHDAD — As leaders in the Arab world…
The New Hama Rules
What a difference three decades make. In April 1982, I was assigned to be the…
HAMA’S GHOSTS (from The New Yorker)
Posted by Leen Zyiad The author is writing under a pseudonym. Hama haunts us Syrians;…
Israel sinking into religious-fundamentalist swamp
The intention of the proposed new Basic Law that would define Israel as ‘the national…
Internet Freedom Is the First Freedom of the 21st Century
Hurriyet Daily News, August 7, 2011 The Arab Spring has provided us with a new…
نبيل العربي: لا تتوقعوا خطوات جذرية بشأن سوريا
القاهرة (رويترز) – قال نبيل العربي الامين العام لجامعة الدول العربية يوم الاثنين انه سيلجأ…
Green Movement Council warns Iran regime, sides with Syrian protesters
GVF — The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope, the Green Movement’s highest…
Beirut’s Dahieh under Pasdaran heavy hand: investigations into alleged spy ring sparing no one
MEtransparent Exclusive Whoever enters Beirut’s “Dahieh” during the day cannot but notice Hezbollah’s discreet security…
Syrian Army Shows Growing Signs of Strain
Although the Syrian army has shown signs of fraying for some time, the potential for…
Is the US ambassador to Syria being unfairly blamed for the administration’s bad policy?
On Tuesday, as Syrian shells rained down on the besieged city of Hama, the White…
Syria’s uprising: violence will not stop a people seeking freedom and dignity
The “Syrian spring” did not want regime change. However, months of violence by Assad and…
Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source (Spiegel)
By Ulrike Putz in Jerusalem One atomic researcher after the other has died in a…
Dahiye explosion: was the son of Imad Mugnieh targeted?
MEtransparent exclusive Notwithstanding Hizbullah’s claims that “the blast that happened in an apartment in Dahieh’s…