A 75 year old Israeli woman was killed yesterday by a rocket fired from Gaza as Israel suggested any truce in the Strip depended on the release of the Army corporal seized almost two years ago.The woman died after the
With practically no weapons, the Druze men took on the menacing rockets of Hezbollah. Druze fighters in Mount Lebanon refused to sit quietly while Hezbollah militiamen ravaged their homes and shops.
Hezbollah took the violence to the Druze strongholds of Aley, Aytat, Souk el Gharb, Shouifat, Aramoun, Bshamoun, and to the Shouf villages of Mount Lebanon. Druze leaders Walid Jumblatt and Talal Arslan reached an agreement to put the Lebanese army
By Walid Phares Beirut - While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon.
Beirut- Hajj Hussein Khalil, the political assistant of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of "Hezbollah" attacked the government during a press conference
Afghanistan - Iran - Pakistan Afghan Anti-Narcotics Minister Khodaidad said on Sunday that Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are to set up three joint border centers to fight drug trafficking.
Beirut - In a press release issued to the media, former MP Nassib Lahoud held Hezbollah accountable for the recent violence and the security of the country in coming days.
The besieged Gaza Strip faced new blackouts on Sunday as its only power plant shut down after receiving no fuel from Israel in four days, senior Palestinian officials said. Meanwhile, Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert on Sunday blamed Hamas for all
Sudan on Sunday severed diplomatic ties with Chad, accusing Ndjamena of backing a Darfur rebel assault on Khartoum, and slapped a multi-million dollar price on the head of the alleged mastermind. The government said it had repulsed the assault by
The number of probes of Israeli soldiers suspected of committing offenses against Palestinian civilians more than doubled last year compared to 2006, an Israeli human rights group said on Sunday. Last year 351 inquiries were opened against Israeli soldiers suspected
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebels in neighboring northern Iraq, killing an unknown number of militants in the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish military said Sunday. The "intensive" bombing in the Avasin-Basyan region
Guns fell silent in Baghdad's militia bastion of Sadr City on Sunday after the movement of hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr struck a deal with Iraqi officials to end the fighting in the district. The concrete barricade which the US
is now generally recognised as the world's leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.
One of the most disturbing aspects of the violence that broke out in Beirut last week was the targeting of media outlets. The extent to which freedom of the press is respected in Lebanon is one of the most important
The Lebanese Army deployed heavily in the Aley district southeast of Beirut late Sunday following fierce clashes between gunmen loyal to Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt and fighters from Amal and Hizbullah, leaving eight people dead. The
