More than half of the Lebanese population views the United States favorably, according to a recent poll. A total of 55 percent of Lebanese questioned by researchers at the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project said they saw the US

Egypt is to try in a security court 26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and ships in the Suez Canal on behalf of Lebanon’s Hizbullah, the public prosecutor said on Sunday. They are charged with conspiracy to

Israel is preparing for another war on Lebanon between the end of year and next spring, Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said during a private meeting with Lebanese emigrants, New TV reported on Saturday. Nasrallah said the "new formula

Phalange party head Amin Gemayel and Marada Movement leader Sleiman Franjieh expressed their joint commitment on Sunday to strengthening the Christians’ role in Lebanon and the Middle East so as to put an end to the past era of "[Christian]

President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will kick off on Monday discussions on the distribution of ministerial portfolios in the next government, several media reports said on Sunday. Sleiman said on Saturday that the cabinet’s formation process was

The militant group Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks on Israel which threatened to shatter its fragile peace with Lebanon earlier this year. A video, apparently produced and posted online by the group, recently surfaced featuring footage of

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has pledged continued defiance of a conservative-backed coup that sent him into exile and called on the United States to impose sanctions on his country’s military and civilian leaders. A Honduran man was found dead

The UN’s climate panel has been backed over a key question as to how far global warming will drive up sea levels this century, a study published on Sunday says. The UN experts are right that the oceans are unlikely

North Korea’s defense minister promised to retaliate against tough new UN sanctions put in place following its missile and nuclear tests, state media reported Sunday. Kim Yong-Chun warned of possible all-out war amid "a touch-and-go situation" created by what he

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said NATO is beginning to realize that Georgia and Ukraine should not be "dragged" into the alliance. "The understanding that these respected states are not ready to make this sort of decision and that the alliance

Kurdish opposition groups complained of widespread violations in Saturday’s Kurdistan elections but Iraq’s electoral commission said voting was largely sound. The Change list, which is headed by independent Noshirwan Mustafa, said the authorities had executed a "premeditated plan to change

The British government was urged to start engaging with moderates in Hamas in a report by lawmakers scrutinizing London’s foreign policy published on Sunday. The House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee said that not talking to Hamas the Palestinian Islamist

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah has accused Iraq of encroaching on their unmarked common border, in statements published on Sunday by a Dubai newspaper. "Kuwait hopes that the brothers in Iraq will solve a number of issues,

One person was killed and four wounded, three of them police, as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the southern city of Dhaleh on Saturday, Yemen’s Defense Ministry said. The ministry, on its website, said "anti-unity" activists among the protesters

From the western edge of the Muslim world, the King of Morocco has dared to tackle one of the most inflammatory issues in the Middle East conflict the Holocaust. At a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s dismissal of the

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played down sharp differences with the United States over Jewish settlements on Sunday before the arrival of two senior US officials. "It is only natural, that within a fabric of friendly relations between allies, there

Saudi Arabia is likely to ban the elderly and children from the hajj this year to limit the risk of swine flu, but this will not change country quotas for the pilgrimage, a health official said Saturday. Dr. Khaled Marghlani,

With a show of force, Somali government troops on Sunday took full control of the strategic western town where the national security minister was killed last month. Hundreds of heavily armed government soldiers rolled into the town of Belet Weyne

The administration of US President Barack Obama is stuck between a rock and a hard place in its Iran policy. On the one hand, the recent unrest will take time to percolate into a reformed Islamic Republic. On the other,

The United States launched a fresh drive on Sunday to restart Middle East peace talks, sending senior officials to the region to deal with issues ranging from Jewish settlements to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The visits by Middle East envoy George