Thousands of residents of Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan, have been flocking to bus stations seeking transport out of the city fearing that an all-out war is in the offing after an escalation of violence, the United Nations refugee (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Papers around the world have speculated that Hosni Mubarak, the 82-year-old Egyptian president, is suffering from terminal stomach and pancreatic cancer and may not live to see the next presidential elections. This has once again (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Papers around the world have speculated that Hosni Mubarak, the 82-year-old Egyptian president, is suffering from terminal stomach and pancreatic cancer and may not live to see the next presidential elections. This has once again (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: The indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel that began last May have gone as far as they can. Their purpose - to break the ice between the two states after eight years of not talking, and to test one another's resolve over (...)
In spite of its ongoing political crisis, an institutionally crippled Lebanon is performing well on a front it ironically has little experience in: counterterrorism.
Five months after the Lebanese army s bloody though ultimately successful battle (...)
This time in Middle East relations, it is crucial to get it right . and fast. Why? Because the stakes are so high.
Failure to have comprehensive peace between Arabs and Israelis is going to have consequences and repercussions of a magnitude we (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: In the history of US-Lebanese relations, no American president has pledged to support Lebanese democracy more than G.W. Bush. No American president has invited Lebanese officials to the White House more than G.W. Bush. Why? Because (...)
With political polarization reaching alarming levels in Lebanon, one of the most pressing questions is whether or not the country will return to the gruesome chapters of its past and degenerate into civil war. It is difficult to predict when or how (...)