Hezbollah accused of attemped kidnapping

March 14 MPs on Tuesday accused Hezbollah “militants” of attempting to kidnap a Syrian national in the town of Arsal in the Bekaa region and condemned the assault by a Lebanese army patrol. (more…)

Lebanon celebrates its independence day

President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn and Lebanese Army commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi all attended the 50-minute Independence Day military parade at Shafiq Wazzan Avenue in Downtown Beirut Tuesday morning. (more…)

Syrian SNC discussing post-Assad with Arab League

The opposition Syrian National Council said Tuesday it is organising a conference with the Arab League to prepare for a “transitional period” after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Assad is under mounting pressure from Syria’s neighbours to step down over his regime’s eight-month crackdown on protests that the United Nations says has killed more than 3,500 people since mid-March. (more…)

Opinion: The end of Assad is in sight

The Syrians have suffered a litany of horrors. Their resistance to Assad’s regime will stand as an exemplar of human courage

Turkish PM urges Assad to step down

Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday that Syria’s president must step down over the country’s crackdown on dissent, ratcheting up the pressure on the increasingly isolated Bashar Assad.

Turkey’s call came as Syrian activists reported that five people — including four children — were killed Tuesday. (more…)

Syrian envoy calls UN draft a ‘declaration of war’ on Damascus

Syria’s U.N. envoy on Monday slammed a draft U.N. resolution condemning the Syrian government’s eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, calling it a “declaration of war” on Damascus. (more…)

How Hezbollah Captured American Spies ?

Hezbollah Captured American Spies by Tracking Cellphone Data With Commercially Available Software
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Syrian and Lebanese Salvation Is Near

by Ghassan Karam
Often reality is difficult to accept and especially for the ideologues whose understanding of development and their advice is rarely, if ever, to be taken seriously.

Confusion over Egyptian cabinet resignation

A government spokesman said Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s entire cabinet had tendered its resignation and Al Jazeera television said the ruling military council had accepted them. (more…)

Egypt’s Cabinet resigns after at least 24 killed

Egypt’s army-appointed government handed in its resignation Monday, trying to stem a spiraling crisis as thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square clashed for the third straight day with security forces in violence that has killed at least 24 people and posed the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of the military. (more…)