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DOHA, Qatar, May 21 (UPI) -- An agreement reached Wednesday to resolve the ongoing conflict over the presidency in Lebanon could lead to new stability and end ongoing violence. The Qatari government and the League of Arab States facilitated a dialogue with Lebanese political leaders in Doha,...
The Bush administration, with waning influence and regional allies pursuing their own agendas, has little choice but to swallow Lebanese and Israeli talks with U.S. adversaries Hezbollah and Syria. A deal to end a deadly political impasse in Lebanon and an announced resumption of peace contacts...
News that Israel has for months been secretly negotiating with Syria has sent a frisson of excitement through the Middle East — overshadowing, at least momentarily, the new political deal in Beirut. The standoff between Syria and Israel has historically been much more intractable than that...
The Bush administration sought Wednesday to put a positive spin on a deal between Lebanon's feuding factions, saying it is key to short-term stability even though it gives the militant Hezbollah movement more power. At the same time, administration officials were cool to an announcement by Israel...
By Middle East correspondent Ben Knight Lebanon's factions have agreed to a peace deal that should end the country's 18-month political deadlock. After five days of talks in Qatar that appeared to be headed nowhere, 14 of Lebanon's political and tribal leaders have reached an agreement on how to...
General Michel Suleiman, the head of the Lebanon's army since 1998, is set to become the country's new president after rival politicians reached a power-sharing deal in Qatar. He is widely seen as a unifying figure in Lebanon, where nearly every politician is considered to be either pro- or...
How do you think the "national unity government" agreed upon in Doha will affect the Special Tribunal for Lebanon? It will threaten the Tribunal's operations and progress. It will give the Tribunal pan-Lebanese protection from foreign interference. It will have no impact - the Tribunal is an...
Spain on Wednesday welcomed the "important" agreement clinched in Doha aimed at ending an 18-month crisis in Lebanon that came close to civil war, saying it paved the way for peace in the country. "The government of Spain sends its warmest congratulations to the Lebanese political forces for the...
by Michael J. Totten I find it difficult to write the long dispatches you're accustomed to reading while traveling. It takes the better part of a week for me to transcribe the interviews on my voice recorder and the observations and quotes in my notebooks, organize and upload photographs, and...
The military campaign launched in May 2008 by the Shi'a Islamist party Hizbollah to control Beirut has raised fundamental questions about the very existence of Lebanon as a nation-state. But the ten days of armed confrontation that followed, which took the lives of more than sixty people, (...)
