Middle East Conflict & Tragedy News

Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office, and his team...

The head of a leading Lebanese social justice organization on Friday lamented the absence from the Ministerial Statement any efforts toward reforming the country’s sexist nationality law. Lina Abou-Habib, executive director of the Collective for Research, Training and Development-Action,...

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel told Al-Massira magazine on Friday that bilateral dialogue, a reference to that between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt and Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh, which took place in Baabda on Wednesday, is...

Judicial Police Commander General Anwar Yehya told Al-Manar television on Friday that evidence in the death of a mother, Grace Jalkh, and her three daughters in Bhersaf-Metn on Wednesday night points, until now, to a suicide. According to Yehya, the...

The pro-Israel lobby and antisemitism C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny? Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, in Westminster,...

Following the Ministerial Statement Committee’s meeting at the Grand Serail on Friday, Information Minister Tarek Mitri said that “no clause is more important than the other” and that a large part of the statement’s economic chapter has been established.

Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to release a long-delayed report prepared in 2004 by the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used by the CIA and some of its contractors against so-called...

Bassem Fleihan center, Information Minister Tarek Mitri said that Lebanon’s sovereignty is “not fully applied,” which makes it difficult to implement the country’s laws, starting with placing all arms under state authority. He added that Lebanon’s main administration problem is...

The goal absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new middle east (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east...