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Jul 21 2008, AP

Syria’s foreign minister said Monday his country was determined to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two neighbors gained independence from France more than 60 years ago.

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Jul 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.

 
 
Jul 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.

 
 
Jul 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

Syria’s foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon on the first such visit by a senior Syrian official in more than three years.

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

Britain’s highest appeals court is scheduled to decide this week whether a divorced woman and her son should be deported to Lebanon, where she claims her abusive husband will gain custody under Sharia law.

 
 
Jul 20 2008 by AP0 Comments

Palestinian security officials say the leader of an extremist Palestinian group has died from wounds sustained in a clash inside a refugee camp in south Lebanon.

 
 
Jul 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

A former Israeli defense official says the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government.

 
 
Jul 17 2008 by AP0 Comments

Four tractor-trailers carrying the remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters are headed to Lebanon’s capital a day after a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon.

 
 
Jul 16 2008 by AP0 Comments

A look at five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel on Wednesday as part of an exchange deal with Hezbollah:

 
 
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May 10 2008 by Gagandeep0 Comments

Iran has won the first round of its proxy war against America in the streets of Beirut. Hezbollah gunmen flaunting their snipers have become the norm and the Lebanese government condemnations have been reduced to mere symbolism. Shias, it seems, are...

 
 
Feb 15 2008 by Sunit0 Comments

Lebanon is a country without a standing Parliament, and a President at the moment and yet regional players are having a go at each other making it immensely difficult for the international community to find a solution in installing a legitimate...

 
 
Dec 13 2007 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

The massive bomb which killed Lebanon’s likely next army chief, Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, has raised many questions. At first glance it would appear to be revenge killing by Fatah al-Islam, the Al Qaeda aided Muslim outfit that was hounded out from the...

 
 
Nov 6 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

It seems that US is in no mood to give diplomacy a chance when dealing with Syria and Iran (countries included in America’s axis of evil). Syria is long been accused by the United States of fomenting unrest in Lebanon and Iraq, but the brand new...

 
 
Oct 20 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

Last year’s war between Israel and the Lebanese militant outfit Hezbollah had strategic consequences. Both Israel and Hezbollah declared victory but the truth is that the Lebanese armed group had lost much of their ammunition stock and was severely...

 
 
Oct 6 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The Christians were once the dominant community in Lebanon but now they play second fiddle to Muslims. As if that itself doesn’t threaten them in the fight for survival amidst Lebanon’s political turmoil and insecurity, the fact that the Christian...

 
 
Sep 26 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

The debate in the Lebanon’s assembly to elect the President has heated up between the US backed Fouad Siniora’s Govt. and the rival faction backed by Syria and Iran. The presidential election is never a home affair but something thrust upon them....

 
 
Sep 24 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Patting few and discarding critics is what US’s intransigence and its Mideast policy is all about. Arabs wary of US policies and amid such suspicions if US invites Arabs for the peace talks, it’s a matter of suspicion. Of course, one is hardly...

 
 
Aug 10 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Russian and US standoff on Missile Defense Shield (MDS) is not yet over; however, now Israel joins the fray and wants a MDS in place - which it needs to fight against militants – before relinquishing West Bank.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense...

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Jul 30 2007 by AMIT0 Comments

The Lebanese army has speeded up its operation against Fatah al-Islam militants hiding in Palestine refugee camps. After a bloody Sunday offensive that culminated in the killing of eight militants, the army moved its strike forces deep in to the Nahr...

 
 
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Nash, Beirut
Samir Kuntar’s release is with no doubt the highlight of this week around Middle East events. It is the story of a man, who had been imprisoned for 30 years in...
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Last night I attended the Social Media Exchange’s 1st Social Hour titled: “Blogging, citizen journalism, social networks, etc...What alternative media exists in...
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Last night, at around 10.30 pm, the citizens of Tripoli, the second biggest city in Lebanon, started hearing gunshots, automatic weapons fire, and even rocket-propelled...
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To those who don’t know what it means, a masochist would be the person who likes to willingly inflect pain upon himself , for the simple joy of feeling it… Now some...
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Israel and Hezbollah via Lebanon as the negotiator have reached a decision regarding the pending prisoner exchange. It is stated that this exchange will be carried out...
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Nash, Beirut
When we talk about media’s power and influence, I think one of the best and simplest definitions was said by G.K. Chesterton : “Journalism largely consists in...
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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. “ Thomas Jefferson The democratic republic of...
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Nadia Hasan, Buenos Aires
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, the pro-government media is shut and possibly Lebanon is on the edge of a planned civil war. According to Lebanon’s...
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Naresh Chauhan, Shimla
Instability in the Middle East spreads and grows by the day as violence flared up in Lebanon. The region had not yet recovered from the bloody conflict between Hamas...
made popular May 21 2007
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Premier Fouad Siniora on Friday set his cabinet’s mission as managing differences among the various factions through state institutions and setting the stage for...
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Nash, Beirut
The Lebanese army moved today into Bastara Farm, the only one of the occupied Shebaa Farms that the Israeli army evacuated when it pulled out of South Lebanon in 2000.
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Nash, Beirut
Mohammed Zuhair Siddiq , a key witness in the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has reportedly returned to Paris, according to a...
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Nash, Beirut
Phalange Party leader and Lebanon’s former president Amin Gemayel said hooded gunmen have kidnapped an undisclosed number of people who were vacationing in the...
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Nash, Beirut
On June 20, The New York Times published a report saying that more than 100 Israeli aircraft carried out an exercise in early June over the eastern Mediterranean Sea...
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Nash, Beirut
“Some factions behave as if they want Israel to remain in Lebanon. This is shameful,” Saniora told reporters.
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Nash, Beirut
“The opposition gave a limited period, the period is over by the end of this weekend, then it will move to a new political phase”
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For 2 1/2 days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of a darkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified. Militiamen loyal to Hezbollah had kidnapped him...
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Lebanon’s governing coalition on Wednesday night formally reversed two decisions that had provoked the militant group Hezbollah, bringing the country a step closer to...
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Lebanese soldiers arrest a demonstrator at a rally demanding the release of Lebanese in Syrian prisons, during the visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in suburban Baabda, Lebanon, Monday, July 21, 2008. Syria’s foreign minister said Monday...