Breaking Middle East Conflict & Tragedy News

I seem to have to beat a dead horse an awful lot lately. I guess it is appropriate that once again it is over a problem Bush created. As I watch the situation in Yemen devolve and the 2nd link...

Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Ghilat Shalid exchange may not hapen. Israel does not agree with Palestine proposal which want to release the Palestine prisoners in Israeli jail. Israel has dropped hamas requirement to some jailed only and the exchange...

In an interview with New TV on Wednesday, Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr called on all parties to refrain from discussing the contestations of parliamentary election results with the media, highlighting the importance of secrecy in the Constitutional Council’s...

Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported on Wednesday that a “prominent [Lebanese] minister” denied earlier reports that the Ministerial Statement Committee concluded the statement’s economic section during its Monday session. The minister told the daily that he expects the committee to finalize...

Najjar refused to disclose the name of the dismissed judge, but Al-Liwaa identified the judge as Tanios Ghantous.  Sleiman added that reforms must be taken only by the administration of the judiciary, without outside interference. He said that he discussed...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) moved to consolidate ties with Lebanon’s citizens by promoting its Arabic-language website, launched in August, in a press briefing held in the southern coastal city of Tyre. UNIFIL was the first UN peacekeeping...

Democratic Gathering bloc MP Marwan Hamadeh told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Wednesday that Labor Minister Boutros Harb and Social Affairs Minister Selim Sayegh “will not be left alone in the Ministerial Statement [Committee],” a possible reference to...