Op-Ed Geographer and Arab world specialist Ali Bensaad attributes the deteriorating condition of the dams and the anarchic urbanization…
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The ASC President H.E. Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah received a letter of congratulation from His Highness Deputy Amir and the Crown…
(Druze protesting in Syria.) The most immediate reason for the outbreak of protests in mostly Druze areas is Assad’s…
(Nasrallah (center) with Al-‘Arouri (right) and Al-Nakhaleh (Image: almanar.com.lb, hamas.ps, jehad.ps, September 2, 2023) * Lately there have been growing…
(Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (L) in Moscow, Russia on July 05, 2023)…
The Wagner mercenary boss was counting on solidarity from senior army officers, and since he came close to reaching Moscow…
Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system with two 9M723K5 missile. The Iskander system is reported to be capable of firing ballistic…
By N. Mozes* Introduction Although it has been five years since the Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated in…
Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the beautiful game, just not…
Given the military’s behavior during a recent confrontation and the spike in Christian anger toward Hezbollah, Washington should consider…
BY LAURA SILVER AND SARAH AUSTIN Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Israel in recent weeks over a controversial judicial overhaul spearheaded by…
He presided over economic collapse in Lebanon In most countries, a 95% drop in the currency would be a firing…
A former senior intelligence official and a founder of the ministry of intelligence, says Iran was once a semi-democracy but…
Christians in Lebanon feel under existential threat, but more isolation would only lead to their ruin. Last week,…
All wars feature their own narratives. These are the ways that belligerents seek to portray themselves to outsiders and to…
(Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s special representative in clerical affairs) A senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of…
Watch a special conversation about the murder of Lebanese activist and writer Lokman Slim between veteran Lebanese journalist Hanin Ghaddar…
(Left: Baruch Goldstein (Source: Falafel Café). Right: Photos from the Yom Kippur War, known to the Arabs as the Ramadhan…
A group of Syrian and Lebanese intellectuals and politicians have released a joint statement denouncing the efforts of certain Arab…
(Photo: The man in a white robe waving to the crowd is late Saudi King Faisal on his visit to…
Hussein el-Husseini, who passed away yesterday at the age of 85, was a Lebanese nationalist and champion of a Lebanese…
A large group of Lebanese politicians have slammed claims by Iran’s Supreme Leader who said recently that Tehran’s the influence…
by Carol Glatz AWALI, Bahrain — Traveling as a “sower of peace” to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis further…
Statement October 17, 2022 Saydet El Jabal Gathering held its weekly meeting and issued the following statement: Now…
The collapse of a six-month truce bodes ill for an already battered country. In early October, a United Nations-brokered…
Just after midnight on August 21, 1991, a column of armored personnel carriers manned by soldiers from a unit of…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to…
Executive Summary To Bank Depositors in Lebanon (Confronting Banks, Banque du Liban, and Government) Bank depositors in Lebanon…
In light of Tehran’s concerted efforts to reverse last year’s electoral setback, it has become too risky to let Baghdad’s…
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the new head of the Italian bishops conference, smiles during a press conference in Rome, Friday, May…
Putin’s genocidal war on Ukraine may have less to do with empire and far more to do with profits. Enormous profits.…
Qatar is a great supporter of major extremist Islamic organizations and ceaselessly acts against Israel on the regional and international…
In a blog post titled “Redeployment” the popular blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan aka El-Murid takes note of reports that Russia is redeploying…
The “National Council to End the Iranian Occupation of Lebanon” issued the following appeal on the occasion of the coming…
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with Lebanon. The recent publication of Fouad Ajami’s…
Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, Israel’s outgoing commander of the 91st Galilee Division, adds however that as the Lebanese crisis deepens,…
Attitudes toward NATO increasingly positive A new Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 21-27, finds that just 7% of…
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf…
Syria is being drawn into a de facto coalition that may aim to limit Iran’s reach in the Levant …
A pro-Kremlin tabloid briefly publishes the apparent Russian war toll, reporting that 9,861 Russian soldiers have been killed since Moscow…
(French military equipment is unloaded from a freight airplane at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania last Thursday.) The United…
It is a year ago since Lokman Slim was assassinated in Lebanon. His was the latest in a series of…
DUBAI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Saudi authorities’ willingness to promote critical thinking will determine if a reform drive launched there…
Kommuniqué vom 8. November 2021 Vom Tag zu Tag wächst die Gewissheit, dass der Iran und seine Verbündeten bei…
Maria Maalouf insists Israel isn’t Lebanon’s enemy, and that whatever the Jewish state has done pales by comparison to the…
The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians gave his formal blessing Tuesday to an ornate shrine that will…
Finance Minister says no diplomatic move or agreement can stop the Iranian nuclear program, adds Teheran was surprised by the…
Hezbollah braccio armato dell’Iran in Libano si è opposto alla giustizia due volte. La prima nel 2005, quando ha respinto…
Kommuniqué vom 18. Oktober 2021 Zweimal war Hisbollah mit der Justiz konfrontiert, zweimal hat sie es abgelehnt! Das erste…
Kommuniqué vom 11. Oktober 2021 In einer Zeit, in der die Rollen von Großmächten und regionalen Staaten, die einen…