Content tagged with “Syria”
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), probing the murder of late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, submitted a sealed indictment in the case to the country's prosecutor general, Saeed Mirza, this...
Tags: Lebanon, Hezbollah, Hariri, Special Tribunal, Syria Five months of political void in Lebanon ended with the appointment of thirty new ministers led by Prime Minister Najib Mikati. In a return to the pre-Cedar Revolution era, the new line-up is...
Tags: Government, Lebanon, Foreign Aid, Hezbollah, Congress, Syria As Palestinian refugees and Syrians marched towards the Israeli border at the Golan Heights, marking the 1967 Naksa Day, the Lebanese border nearby witnessed an odd calm. Commemorating the 1948 Nakba...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, Israel, protests, Turkey, violence, Palestinians, refugees, Kurds While local and international observers continue to be preoccupied with regional upheavals, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare has submitted an amended indictment to...
Tags: Lebanon, Special Tribunal, Syria The tides may be turning against the Syrian regime as it starts to lose its friends, both regionally and internationally. As the Syrian revolution enters its third month, with the death toll...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests, United States, sanctions, Turkey, European Union The Syrian government has intensified in recent days its brutal crackdown on the protesters calling for regime change, most notably in the town of Talkalakh near the Lebanese border. From shelling of...
Tags: Syria, protests, violence, refugees Last Sunday's commemoration of the Day of the Nakba, denoting the uprooting of Palestinians from Israel, turned bloody in South Lebanon. In past years, the day of commemoration was marked by rallies...
Tags: Iran, Syria, Israel, protests, corruption, arrests, uprising, Palestinians The death toll in Syria's uprising has risen to 750 civilians since the protests began in March. According to human rights groups, around 10,000 Syrians have been arrested -- nearly all of them are...
Tags: Human Rights, senate, United Nations, Syria, protests, sanctions, violence "If there is no stability here [in Syria], there's no way there will be stability in Israel", Rami Makhlouf, President Assad's cousin, the regime's businessman and a lightning rod for Syrian...
Tags: Iran, Syria, Israel, protests, Turkey, corruption, Hamas, Palestine 
