The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his Shiite militant group will not stand idly by while its chief ally Syria is under attack.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says Hezbollah members are fighting in Syria against Islamic extremists who pose a danger to (...)
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad shelled a strategic western town on Saturday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from there, activists said.
Pro-Assad troops, including fighters from the Lebanese militia (...)
The road leading up to the Iranian Garden (Al-Hadeeqa Al-Iraniya) located on top of mountain Maroun Araas in Bint Jbeil is adorned on both sides by newly constructed houses replacing those destroyed by the last Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006. On the (...)
In 2010, a summit was held in Damascus that brought together Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The slogan under which the three leaders met was “All for one.” (...)
Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement.
The bombing increased fears that Syria's civil war was dragging in neighboring states (...)
A militant Palestinian group in Damascus said it is forming combat units to try to recapture Israeli-occupied territory, in particular the Golan Heights, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah that they would support such (...)
For over a month now, the Iranian regime has been concerned about the possible downfall of one of its most faithful allies, President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria.
One of Iran's key figures even went as far as saying that the fall of Damascus would be (...)
Syrian rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad fought intense battles with his troops on Sunday to try to seize control of three military air bases in the country's north and curtail the regime's use of its punishing air power, activists (...)
Hizbullah is continuing to assist Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his fight against the rebels. Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, the Saudi daily (...)
On Saturday, former president Hosni Mubarak will be retried before a criminal court for the charges on which he was convicted last summer: turning a blind eye to the killing of demonstrators during the 18 days of Egypt's 25 January 2011 (...)
The Egyptian embassy in Austria is organizing an Egyptian Film Week event in Vienna between 11 and 14 March.
The event will screen four Egyptian movies: Baad el Mawkeaa (After The Battle, 2012) a drama written by Omar Shama and directed by Yousry (...)
Egypt and Iraq have signed an agreement which will supply Egypt with 4 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil per month and 4,000 tonnes of diesel per day.
The agreement was concluded during Prime Minister Hesham Qandil's recent visit to Iraq.
The oil (...)
Wadi Holding Group received a high delegation from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to directly know the Group's progresses made in Egypt; like implementing the criteria of the biosecurity standards on the poultry farms, and using the (...)
Prime Minster Hesham Qandil announced yesterday government plans to increase natural gas prices for cement and brick factories from $4 per million BTU to $6 per million BTU.
The government also decided to increase fuel oil and diesel prices by 50%, (...)
Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah made surprising comments in a speech marking the end of the Shia holiday of Ashoura — that Lebanon should provide assistance for Syrian refugees. If the call is honoured, it could help diffuse sectarian tension in (...)
Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Hamdy says his country plans to forge "tight" relations with the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah.
“You cannot discuss politics in Lebanon without having a relationship with Hezbollah," Hamdy said in an (...)
Egyptian press
Looking ahead
Now that the post-revolution constitution has been approved by a majority of Egyptians, newspapers and writers questioned what would happen next and whether the much-disputed constitution could pave the way for a (...)
According to various definitions, politicide can be used to describe the destruction of a government or a specific socio-political group, such as the Palestinians, when it overlaps with genocide. It can be extended to a state, a system and a (...)
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Al-Qaeda on Sunday that it had been tricked into fighting in Syria, and that the rebellion would not be able to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad militarily.
"The Americans, Europeans and some (...)
When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many American supporters of the war argued that moving against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein earlier rather than later would create the conditions for a new and more realistic Middle East peace (...)
Israel's regional status, and particularly its increasingly declining, if not altogether questioned, strategic value suffered a major and irremediable blow in the latest confrontation with the Arab resistance in Palestine. While this might not be (...)
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says the Islamist group would fire thousands of rockets into Israel and hit cities in the country's heartland in any future war.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's comments came days after an eight-day Israeli offensive (...)
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Sunday that thousands of rockets would rain down on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities if Israel attacked Lebanon.
In a speech marking the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's (...)
When a car bomb detonated in the Christian quarter Ashrafieh in East Beirut I was only half a mile away. I heard the blast, saw the dark cloud and witnessed the destruction at Sassine square half an hour later. The target was not the Christian (...)
Nothing seems to have changed in our Arab world. It's as though universities weren't built, cities hadn't flourished and the outside world hadn't begun to interweave with ours and ours with the outside world. It's as though we hadn't had an Arab (...)