Queues are snaking outside bakeries and supermarkets in Gaza as frantic residents stock up on supplies over fears their overcrowded land will stay sealed off from the world after the Hamas takeover. Israel closed off the tiny coastal strip and
Tripoli - The Lebanese army is army expected to finish off the terrorists of Fatah al Islam at the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp within the next 48 hours according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
A cease-fire was holding in Yemen on Sunday after Zaidi rebels agreed to lay down their arms, ending years of fierce fighting that has killed thousands in one of the world's poorest countries. The rebels from the Zaidi minority announced
A senior Palestinian official on Sunday accused pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television of favoring Hamas in its coverage of the battles between the Islamists and Fatah. "Al-Jazeera is an accomplice in the crimes committed by the [Hamas] militias ... against our people,"
Jordanian Islamists, trade unionists and human rights activists called Sunday for an independent inquiry into accusations of torture of prisoners by the intelligence and security services. "It is important to establish an independent judicial commission to investigate frequent complaints of
The commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday that American troops could be needed in the country for a decade to battle insurgents and acknowledged there were "legitimate concerns" about a new US tactic of arming Sunni insurgents against
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured Turkey on Sunday that his government wanted to halt the operations of Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. During a meeting with Turkey's envoy to Baghdad, Derya Kanbay, Maliki said Iraq "was concerned about
British defense firm BAE Systems secretly paid 250,000 pounds ($494,000) for the daughter of a Saudi prince at the center of bribery allegations to go on a luxury honeymoon, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. The weekly said a senior BAE
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency government on Sunday in a move that invited a pledge by the United States to end a crippling financial embargo.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who arrived in the United States for talks
Pope Benedict XVI used a Mass during his pilgrimage to the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi on Sunday to lament the horrors of fighting and terrorism in Iraq, Lebanon and the Holy Land and decry "the illusion" that force
Girls in bikinis sunbathe on the beach by the Sunni-dominated city of Tripoli, while barely 15 kilometers to the north a battle rages between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al-Islam militants. "I've come here with my parents to stay in
Roody Khalil's photographs revel in the accidental and the everyday, the ordinary and the all-too-often overlooked. The 36 images that constitute Khalil's first-ever solo exhibition - which opened rather inauspiciously on Wednesday evening at Galerie Janine Rubeiz in Raouche, just
Iran has accused British leaders of "Islamophobia" for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued a death sentence by the Islamic Republic's revolutionary leader 18 years ago. "Knighting one of the most hated figures in the Islamic world is
Just as the already troubling security situation in Lebanon worsens, the Arab League is preparing to embark upon a mission aimed at resolving the country's political crisis. Undoubtedly, the Arab League's track record with regard to regional crisis management gives
The United Nations Undersecretary General for Safety and Security David Veness arrived in Lebanon on Sunday on a visit expected to include meetings with several Lebanese officials that will focus on the security situation in Lebanon. Veness' visit comes amid
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Saturday that the United Arab Emirates had offered aid worth $5 million to Palestinian refugees forced to flee the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli by the "terrorist" group Fatah al-Islam. Siniora made the
The US State Department strengthened the tone of its travel warning to US citizens last Thursday in terms reminiscent of those used in the 1997 travel warning that replaced a 12-year "citizen-travel" ban to Lebanon. Last week's advice recommended US
Police on Sunday reportedly arrested four men in connection with a violent argument in Beirut's southern suburbs in which three policemen were briefly detained by Hizbullah members. The An-Nahar newspaper quoted a high-ranking security official as saying the four had
Confrontations between Hamas and Fatah members erupted in at least two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon over the weekend, raising fears that the situation in the Palestinian Territories might spill over into Lebanon's camps. The first incident occurred on Saturday
Two Katyusha rockets were fired from South Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, and Israeli troops launched five shells into Lebanon in retaliation. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon condemned the rocket attack as a "serious violation" of Security Council
