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Pro-Syrian Wins Lebanon Seat

Former president defeated in race for murdered son's seat

Aug 6, 07 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The complex political crisis in Lebanon deepened yesterday when a Christian opposition candidate  defeated a  pro-government former president in a special parliamentary election—one of two held to fill seats of anti-Syrian politicians assassinated last year. Ex-president Amin Gemayel, a key player in the US backed majority coalition, was running... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Hezbollah • Amin Gemayal • Pierre Gemayel • Maronite Christians • Michel Aoun • Samir Geagea

White House Proposes $43B in Mideast Military Aid

Rice pitches strategy to help contain Iran

Jul 30, 07 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than $43 billion in US military aid is earmarked for the Middle East, Reuters reports, part of a strategy to fight terrorism and counterbalance Iran. The outlays, which require congressional approval, include $13 billion to Egypt, $30 billion to Israel, and an unspecified amount to Saudi Arabia and other... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Israel • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Robert Gates • Condoleezza Rice • Hezbollah • Egypt • arms race • military aid • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Resurgent Al-Qaeda Poised to Strike US

New report says terror group poses 'persistent and evolving threat'

Jul 17, 07 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda’s mounting presence in Iraq may lead to an attack on US soil within the next three years, a new intelligence report finds. The group’s Iraqi affiliate is building resources, animating Sunni extremists, and recruiting new members. The document also says that Hezbollah and non-Muslim radical groups pose... More »

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Iran • Taliban • Pakistan • Hezbollah • Sunni extremism • Iraq war

Olmert Gets Assist From Barak, Perez

Old allies pull Israeli prime minister back from brink of disaster

Jul 3, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmer's year and a half in office have been a calamity for Israel—the election of Hamas in Palestine, the breakdown of the peace process, the botched war with Hezbollah, the Hamas takeover of Gaza. But the profoundly unpopular PM, whose approval rating sank to 3%, is actually in... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Hamas • Hezbollah • Palestinian civil war • Ehud Barak • Shimon Perez

Iran ID’ed Working With Iraq Militants

US arrests Hezbollah go-between in
Iraq; cites training camps in Iran

Jul 2, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US military has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of aiding Iraqi militants in a devastating January attack and of using Hezbollah as a go-between to arm violent Shiites in that country. In March coalition forces arrested a Hezbollah operative suspected of liaising between Iran and a group led by... More »

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Iran • Shiite • Tehran • Karbala • Hezbollah • Ali Mussa Dakdouk • Revolutionary Guards • militant • Muqtada al-Sadr • Iraq war

Lebanon Under Seige

Jun 19, 07 9:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Economist Middle East correspondent Max Rodenbeck takes us on a painful amble through the history of modern Lebanon.   He sees Lebanon as a Manichean society where the wealthy live next to the poor, the religious coexist (sort of) with the secular, the pro-Syrian are at odds with the pro-Israeli. More »

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Middle East • Lebanon • Palestine • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • history

Abbas Swears in New Gov't

Outlaws militant arm of Hamas

Jun 17, 07 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Abbas swore in his emergency government today, 3 days after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip. Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank economist, will head the new government, composed largely of independents. Unsurprisingly, Hamas says it will not recognize Abbas's regime, and declares the original unity government still... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Hezbollah • Fatah • Salam Fayyad

Israel Cautiously Invites Syria to the Table

Olmert denounces war, hints back-door deals may end in peace talks

Jun 7, 07 10:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's PM deflected fears of a war with Syria today, and fueled semi-official rumors that peace talks are going on furtively between the two hostile countries. Olmert says he wants a sitdown with Syria—which would be the first in seven years—but warned president Assad that talks would not... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad • Hamas • Hezbollah • war

Olmert Braces For Possible Summer Ouster

Report critical of Lebanon war may
doom Israeli PM

Apr 30, 07 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert may be forced out of office to avoid dragging the Kadima party down with him, Haaretz reports. Quoting a senior party official, the newspaper says the Israeli Prime Minister may resign this summer as part of the fallout from a government report on the run-up to and conduct... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • war • Kadima

Klein: War on Terror Has Hurt Israel

Hawks in the Bush administration were pro-Israel, but the results weren't

Mar 26, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - "As a Jew, I am embarrassed by the role that so many prominent Jews have had in empowering the enemy," Joe Klein writes in a blog from Jerusalem, noting the number of neoconservatives in the Bush  war machine who had close ties to the Israeli government. Klein says... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Gaza • Hamas • Jews • Hezbollah • Jerusalem • West Bank • Islamic extremists • neocon

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