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Lebanon's bickering political leaders on Saturday continued Arab-brokered crisis talks in Qatar in a bid to end a long-running feud that drove their country to the brink of a new civil war, with majority leaders insisting confidence-building measures be the first item on the agenda. The talks
by Michael J. TottenLebanon will not become the next Gaza.Commenters both inside and outside the country compared Hezbollah's invasion of West Beirut last week to the Hamas takeover of Gaza last year, which is perhaps understandable: that's what it looked like. If Lebanon's mainstream...
Published: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 @ 1:40 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Doha - Arab-sponsored inter-Lebanese dialogue opened in Qatar Saturday in a bid to end the long-running political crisis that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war after pro- and anti-government supporters fought bloody...
A Bush legacy? All the US president can have found during this week's visit is the smoking ruins of his much-vaunted 'New Middle East' policy After his plane landed in Ben Gurion airport this week, Bush may just have got a whiff of the clowds of smoke engulfing the Middle East skyline. For much...
Talks aimed at ending Lebanon's protracted political crisis have opened in Qatar. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, opened Friday's meeting in Doha, which follow a deal brokered by the Arab League on Thursday to end the worst fighting among Lebanese since the 1975-90 civil...
Published: Friday, 16 May, 2008 @ 1:08 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Aley - Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt made a quick tour of Shouifat, Aley and Baisour on Friday to "pacify" the Shouf mountain residents and express condolences to the family of victims in the latest violence The...
Lebanon news, Lebanese radio station , world news, music, discover Lebanon, visit Beirut, Radio sawt Beirut One person was killed and another wounded late Thursday in a dispute in east Lebanon between government supporters and backers of the Hizbullah-led opposition, security officials said. A...
The Arab League negotiated between pro-government and opposition forces to create a 6-point plan:1) Things must return to what they were before May 5, 2008: the government must respond to the Army Command statement and hand the two decisions over to the army; All arms must be withdrawn from the...
Hezbollah places the Shia, once again, in dire straitsMichael Young, Special to NOW Lebanon , May 15, 2008The failure of Hezbollah’s latest effort to tilt the political and military balance in its favor was visible in the eyes of the mild inhabitants of the Shia village of Qomatiyeh on Tuesday,...
The U.S., European Union, Israel, and the Sunni Arab states are the real targets of the muscle-flexing by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. Thursday, May 15, 2008 As President Bush prepares to travel to the Middle East, Lebanon's survival as a multi-ethnic,...
