When President Trump hosted Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House Tuesday he pointedly described the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, which operates its own foreign and defense policies [...]
BEIRUT — Lebanon, a country seemingly always under existential siege from forces inside and out, is trying to navigate a summer of tensions with its neighbors. First, Saad Hariri, prime minister of the [...]
Martin McGuinness has died and if you were watching the BBC today, you would think he was a peacemaker that never harmed a fly. That for a long time he oversaw a pretty ruthless paramilitary organization, [...]
It’s fascinating to see how Hillary Clinton, the almost Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, wraps the past sixteen years of American Middle East policy, failures and all, into [...]
Miami–The world according to Barack Obama, as laid out in the State of the Union speech, is a place where things are perfect, when led by the United States, or tied up in unresolvable conflicts, [...]
“Forsaken: The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East” will be rolled out in January, 2016. You can order it now at the O/R Books web site: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/forsaken-by-daniel-williams/ [...]
Rome–The term intifada, literally ‘shaking off,’ has been applied to Palestinian uprisings since the first intifada, featuring civil disobedience and stone-throwing, broke out in 1987. [...]
Rome–(Update with arrest of settler leader) A baby was burned alive in a West Bank village, apparently by marauding settlers. It’s the latest episode in a pattern of radical Jewish terrorism [...]
First in a series of dispatches from Lebanon. Zahle–(Updates with link to Nasrallah speech) Hezbollah, the Lebanese party whose militia has grown into a regional military power, is the main scaffolding [...]
Cairo–(Update with NYTimes account) Call John Boehner. There’s another Middle East leader, besides Benjamin Netanyahu, upset with President Obama’s overtures to Iran: Salman, King of [...]
For Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, grandeur through association....
Navalny makes tough move to fight back....
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