Hizbullah’s number two Sheikh Naim Qassem warned on Thursday that the opposition would take the “appropriate measures” if the ruling March 14 alliance resorted to

All wars are hell, but some hells are worse than others. If Arkady Babchenko is to be believed, Russian conscripts fighting their country’s long, shambolic war in Chechnya suffered more at the hands of their own people than those of the enemy.

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir voiced concern Thursday over the current situation in Lebanon, a day before the arrival of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s top aide in Beirut. “The situation we are going through now is