Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks to supporters via television broadcast on a giant screen near the Government house in downtown Beirut, Lebanon on December 7, 2006. Nasrallah vowed that the Lebanese opposition will not surrender in its mass protests to bring down the pro-Western government. (UPI Photo)
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The Real World: Hamas, Qassams & conflict
An incessant and intensifying barrage of Qassam and Katyusha rockets recently forced Israel to undertake the largest ground operation in Gaza since the 2005 pullout. The use of Iranian-manufactured, Russian-designed BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems by Hamas put the Israeli city of Ashkelon, with its power station and refinery, as well as its suburbs, in firing range.
Commentary: Lebanon returns
The minibus is starting its ascent to Dahr Al Baidar on the narrow two-lane highway climbing the eastern slope of the Sannine mountains. The driver guns his engine, accelerates into the left lane while shifting up, and overtakes a truck that is doi
Regional Roundups
A regularly updated column of news briefs from around the region Iranian gives himself up after immolation threat inside UN Athens office
Commentary: Discordant Mideast notes
Congress was near unanimous in its hosannas for Israel's military campaign to uproot Hizbullah from Lebanon's body politic. Only Sen.
Israel pounds Lebanon as world scrambles to avoid war
Israel pounded Lebanon for the third straight day on Friday, targeting Hizbullah's power base and the airport in relentless attacks that have killed about 60 people and left world powers scrambling to avert all-out war in the region.
Israel pounds Lebanon as world urges restraint
Israeli warplanes struck at the heart of Hizbullah's power base and pounded Beirut airport again on Friday after a day of relentless attacks that left about 50 people dead and ignited fears of regional war.
Hizbullah says missing Israeli airman likely dead
The head of Lebanon's fundamentalist Hizbullah movement said that Israeli airman Ron Arad, who has been missing for 20 years, was probably dead, although he had no proof.
Review of the Arab press
A roundup of commentary from Arab newspapers.
Analysis: Syria flexes its Lebanese muscle
Syria flexed its Lebanese political muscle on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of people, responding to a call from Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah, took to the streets of Beirut in a show of support for Damascus. Several eyewitnesses, however, told
