Lebanon's squabbling political leaders were to meet in Qatar on Friday for talks brokered by the Arab League aimed at ending a long-running feud that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war. Leaders of the U.S.-backed ruling coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition will try to forge
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There's a new shortage in Gaza, and I'm not sure they can even blame Israel for this one. It seems that Hamas has run out of 'Palestinian Authority' passports to issue. The official explanation is that passport paper hasn't...
Lebanese have been receiving recorded phone messages asking for information about missing Israeli soldiers. The messages ask people to view an Israeli Web site or call a number in Britain if they have information. The Web site,...
The Australian government is seeking to block al-Manar television - Hezbullah's propaganda station - from being shown through a cable provider in Indonesia. In response, the Indonesians have compared al-Manar to CNN and Al-Beeb...
JERUSALEM -- The politician with perhaps the best chance to replace Israel's embattled prime minister on Thursday called for a unity government to pursue the creation of a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel.