Today, 9 April 2013, Lebanon’s designated Prime Minister Tammam Salam will begin testing the consensus of parliamentary blocs and independents – from...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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Samer al-Issawi, a Palestinian in Israeli prison, has been on a hunger strike for 260 days and counting. Al-Akhbar visited his family in the village...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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The successful designation of MP Tammam Salam to form the next cabinet does not mean that all Lebanon’s problems have been magically solved. Before...
Monday, April 8, 2013
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The Syrian army has conducted a number of surprise attacks in the Damascus countryside, encircling the eastern Ghouta – the belt of farmland to the...
Monday, April 8, 2013
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The look on Mikati’s face on Thursday, April 4, was the same as that of his predecessor, Saad Hariri, when he was deposed by March 8 more than two...
Saturday, April 6, 2013
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Recent Israeli reports have placed remarkable – and repeated – emphasis on Hezbollah’s military capabilities and its unprecedented potential for...
Friday, April 5, 2013
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How did Lebanon and Saudi Arabia’s power brokers decide on Tammam Salam as the country’s next prime minister? Al-Akhbar explains how former prime...
Friday, April 5, 2013
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Until Wednesday evening, Mikati was convinced that his odds at being re-designated prime minister were good. Then, out of nowhere, the March 14...
Friday, April 5, 2013
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Egypt’s Ministry of Interior is playing a dangerous game in Alexandria, pitting the Muslim Brotherhood against the opposition and provoking fights...
Thursday, April 4, 2013
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