Beirut- Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said his battle was one with Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora and not with President Michel Suleiman.

By Tariq AlhomayedBeirut- An interview with a well-informed Syrian source on the secret negotiations between Israel and Syria that was published recently in Asharq Al-Awsat was both interesting and perplexing to a large degree.

By Tariq AlhomayedBeirut- I hold no doubts about the treachery and sectarianism of Hezbollah and the danger that it poses; however, there are those who fail to acknowledge reality until after the axe falls, as the saying goes.

By George FriedmanOn June 20, The New York Times published a report saying that more than 100 Israeli aircraft carried out an exercise in early June over the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Greece.

Beirut / Vienna - Austrian Foreign Minister announced at the end of the donor conference in Vienna that they were able to raise $122 million U.S. dollars in pledges for the reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared camp and surrounding villages.

Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering chief ,MP Walid Jumblatt criticized in the weekly newspaper "al Anbaa " which will be published by the Progressive Socialist Party tomorrow the current violence and the delay in forming the government .Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering

Beirut- Phalange Party leader and Lebanon's former president Amin Gemayel said hooded gunmen have kidnapped an undisclosed number of people who were vacationing in the Sannine Mountain range and released them after a while.

I think Greenidge's wicket, combined with the occasion -- that is the final of a World Cup, made that delivery special,' says Balwinder Singh Sandhu, recounting India's 1983 World Cup triumph.

After giving hits like No Entry and Welcome, Anees Bazme is all set to rock the world with his upcoming comedy, Singh is Kinng, starring Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Sonu Sood, Om Puri and Neha Dhupia.

Sathya Sai Baba has supposedly 'manifested himself' in the ritual fire in a shed at the 'holy sandal' (Paduka) celebrations in 1998. This image and caption were published on a calendar sold in the ashram. It is true that the

Beirut- The focus continues to be the formation of the cabinet by Prime Minister - Designate Fouad Siniora and the distribution of the sovereign ministries. Siniora left today to Vienna to attend the Donor conference for rebuilding the Nahr el

Dozens of Palestinian truck drivers waited to load their goods in the scorching sun on Sunday as Israel said it had started to ease its blockade of Gaza on the fourth day of a truce in and around the territory.

Turkey faces a politically long, hot summer with its Islamist-rooted governing party on trial before the country's highest court under threat of closure on charges of seeking to undermine secularism. The trial before the Constitutional Court opens on July 1

Somali opposition leaders Sunday urged hard-line Islamists to accept a new cease-fire pact, saying it was the way to bring peace to the shattered east African nation. "We are negotiating with those who rejected the truce and hope they will

At least 23 people were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including 16 by a woman suicide bomber who blew herself up in the central city of Baquba, security officials said. The bomber detonated her explosive vest beside a police patrol

Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Baghdad more than a year ago are alive and Iraqi authorities know where they are being held, Iraq's most senior security official told the BBC on Saturday. National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaiesaid: "We

Some 70 African would-be migrants to Europe on Sunday tried to storm through a border post of the Spanish enclave of Melilla and Morocco, but most of them were repulsed, Spanish authorities said. "Between 60 and 70 people from sub-Saharan

Algerian security forces killed an Islamist rebel on Saturday, a security official said. During a raid in the village of Akaouadj near Tizi-Ouzou, 110 kilometers east of Algiers, security forces seized an automatic weapon, documents and ammunition. The suspect's identity

Chadian President Idriss Deby said Saturday that a rebel militia run on Ndjamena has been totally brought under control. "I can reassure national and international opinion that the situation in the east is completely mastered," he told militants from the

Ethiopia has launched a month-long training program for Somali journalists, Addis Ababa said Saturday. "The Ministry of Information in collaboration with the publicly owned media offers a month-long training in journalism to practitioners from Somalia," a statement read.