Al-Qaeda militants in the mountains of Yemen posting bombs to America? Order more drone strikes or send in the Marines. If only it were that simple.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basked in a rock-star welcome from Hezbollah’s Shi’ite loyalists on Wednesday.
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/ 23 December 2009
Iran’s rulers are tensing for a new trial of strength with protesters on Sunday.
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/ 23 October 2009
United States President Barack Obama’s high-priority Middle East peace drive has run into predictable quicksand.
Iran’s hardline rulers are set to punish reformists linked to the boldest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Grappling with instability is nothing new to organisers, audiences and performers at cultural events in Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a rare public appearance, welcomed five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel on Wednesday.
Israel seems content to keep Iran and the rest of the world guessing uneasily about whether and when it might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force. The Shi’ite Hezbollah group and its opposition allies have routed supporters of the Sunni-led government in Beirut.
Lebanon’s army stepped up patrols on Tuesday as part of a drive to restore order after a week of fighting between Hezbollah fighters and pro-government gunmen. Hezbollah, the Shi’ite Muslim movement backed by Iran and Syria, and its opposition allies have routed supporters of the Sunni-led government in Beirut and hills to the east.