The return of kingmaker Muqtada Asia Times | By Sami Moubayed | DAMASCUS - Arab and international media are busy debating who will become the new prime minister of Iraq. Iyad Allawi, a symbol of secularism who came out with 91 seats in the March 7 elections, or incumbent Nuri al-Maliki, a religiously-driven statesman who came in second, with...
Palestinian teen killed as Israelis fire on Gaza Khaleej Times GAZA CITY - A Palestinian teenager was killed and several others were wounded Tuesday as Israeli troops fired on protestors near the Gaza border while Israeli Arabs and Palestinians marked 'Land Day.' | The violence along the tense Gaza border came as events were held across Israel and the occupied ...
German lawmaker in Beirut, will meet Hezbollah official m&c | Beirut - German parliamentary deputy and spokeswoman for the Free Democratic Party in security issues, Elke Hoff, arrived in Beirut on Wednesday for talks with Lebanese officials, including from the Shiite movement Hezbollah. | Hoff is scheduled to...
The return of kingmaker Muqtada Asia Times | By Sami Moubayed | DAMASCUS - Arab and international media are busy debating who will become the new prime minister of Iraq. Iyad Allawi, a symbol of secularism who came out with 91 seats in the March 7 elections, or incumbent Nuri al-Maliki, a rel...
Hariri is courting Hezbollah Gulf News | Damascus has recently made it clear that Hezbollah holds the key to harmony between Syria and Lebanese officials. That explains why Walid Junblatt's Damascus visit came only after he pledged unconditional support for the Lebanese resistance, while ...
'Hezbollah won't be defeated through non-military means' The Siasat Daily | Gaza, April 05: The director of Hezbollah's office of international relations, Nawaf al-Moussawi, has ridiculed the idea of the enemy seeking to defeat the resistance through non-military means. | "After they failed in the July 2006 confrontation, ...
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Listen to the Arabs The New York Times | A gathering of the Arab League tends to bring out the worst of Middle Eastern stereotypes: dysfunctional protocol, empty exhortations denouncing Western evils and pointless acrim...
The undoing of Obama's Cairo speech Al Jazeera | The visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the US vice-president, may usher in a new stage in US foreign policy towards the Middle East peace process, a phase that is clearly different fr...
Hezbollah 'will not be silent' if accused in Hariri murder Middle East Online Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned that his Shiite militant group would not "remain silent" if a UN probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri pointed its finger at his party. | "Accusing individual members of our party is equ...
Hezbollah chief slams US grant to Lebanon police Khaleej Times BEIRUT - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday denounced a 50 million dollar grant from the United States to Lebanon's police force as threatening 'security and national pride'. | "Certain elements in the content of the grant are dangerous," ...
Hezbollah members probed by UN court over Hariri murder Inquirer | BEIRUT, Lebanon—A United Nations team investigating the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri has interrogated members of Shiite militant party Hezbollah, the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday. | "In the past few weeks the...
Clerics hail move to recast jihad fatwa The Times Of India LUCKNOW: Top Indian Muslim clerics have welcomed the move to recast a medieval fatwa on jihad, arguing the religious edict fundamentalists often cite to justify violence cannot be used in a globalised world that respects faith and civil rights. | The 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyya's fatwa was recast at a conference in Mardin in southeastern Turk...
Fifteen dead, hundreds injured in Bangkok clashes Inquirer | BANGKOK—(UPDATE) Thai security forces fought street battles with protesters in the heart of Bangkok Saturday, leaving 15 dead and hundreds injured in the country's bloodiest political violence in almost two decades. | A Japanese cameraman with the Reuters news agency was among those killed as the army launched a crackdown on "Red Shirt" supporter...
