Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Western-backed emergency government in Ramallah, has been acting lately as if he were the head of a free government of a sovereign state.
Read More »Ex-Mossad head: Israeli reports led to death of Egyptian agent
Former Mossad head Zvi Zamir has said that reports in Israel about Dr. Ashraf Marwan, Israel’s Egyptian agent who warned of the pending outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, led to his death.
Read More »Iran regime drowning in oil
THE HARD-LINE regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been frightening neighbors with its meddling-by-proxy in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza.
Read More »Pakistan to help as US’s jailor
With the George W Bush administration under pressure to close the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pakistan is readying to step in to help its ally in the “war on the terror”.
Read More »Five US soldiers killed in Iraq
Five US soldiers have been killed in an attack on a patrol in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military has said.
Read More »Iran Exile Group Stays on EU Terror List
Associated Press, Brussels, Belgium — European Union governments decided Thursday to keep an Iranian opposition group blacklisted as a terrorist organization after reviewing its demand to be removed following a recent court ruling, diplomats said.
Read More »Iran torpedoed Moussa’s Lebanon mission
The Arabic daily Al-Seyassah reported On Thursday According to reliable sources a confidential letter that reached Hizbullah leader Nasrallah, from the Iranian ambassador in Damascus led to the last minute coup against a compromise formula to solve the Lebanese crisis, that has been reached between the Secretary-General of the Arab …
Read More »U.S. Director of National Intelligence: ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ of Iran’s Support for Iraqi Insurgen
Admiral Michael McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence in an interview said there is “overwhelming evidence†that Tehran is supporting insurgents in Iraq and “compelling†evidence that the same is happening in Afghanistan.
Read More »Darfur, Somalia peacekeepers face little peace to keep
United Nations and African Union peacekeepers headed for Sudan’s Darfur region stand little chance of success without a robust peace agreement, observers warn, and could end up becoming scapegoats for ongoing violence.
Read More »Arab anger over Iraq, Lebanon wars could make Blair’s job difficult
One of the biggest challenges Tony Blair will face as a Middle East envoy of the international community is Arab anger over the wars in Iraq and Lebanon, and the suspicion that he is a lackey of US President George W. Bush.
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