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Lebanese agreement ends stalemate

upi.com     52 mins ago    218 related    Send to a friend

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,...

US must tolerate outreach to Hezbollah, Syria

iht.com     30 mins ago    47 related    Send to a friend

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...

Israel and Syria's Secret Talks

time.com     1 hr ago    177 related    Send to a friend

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...

US spins up Lebanon deal, cool on Israel, Syria

iht.com     7 hrs ago    18 related    Send to a friend

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...

Hopes Lebanon deal will prevent new fighting (ABC)

yahoo.com     50 mins ago    5 related    Send to a friend

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...

Profile: General Michel Suleiman

aljazeera.net     8 hrs ago    9 related    Send to a friend

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...

MP Hussein Hajj Hassan to LBC: We need to work on the relation between Lebanon and Syria, and we...

nowlebanon.com     7 hrs ago    16 related    Send to a friend

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 supports Doha agreement

nowlebanon.com     2 hrs ago    7 related    Send to a friend

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...

Writing While Traveling

michaeltotten.com     11 hrs ago    1 related    Send to a friend

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...

Hizbollah and Lebanon: the curse of a state , Robert G Rabil

agoravox.com     7 hrs ago    3 related    Send to a friend

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, (...)