Known simply as the 'General' Michel Naim Aoun was born in a peaceful mixed Christian-Shia area of Haret Hreik, now a core Hezbollah area. He rose from poverty to become

The takeover of Beirut by the largest opposition faction in Lebanon Hezbollah represented a violent earthquake to the already weakened Lebanese state. Recent military confrontations in the city were reminiscent

MB urged in a statement it released at the heel of convening the Arab Summit in Syria today the Arab leaders to rethink the current mechanisms through which the Arab

Alan Johnson: You were raised in a devoutly socialist family in the 1950s, and spent your adolescence running the US young socialist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

As the U.S. convenes a Mideast summit in Annapolis, Maryland today, we spend the hour on the Israeli-Palestine conflict with two of the world’s leading thinkers: former South African Archbishop

Due to the diversity of regimes’ attitudes, Sheikhs’ Fatwas, and people’s opinions that made confusion about resistance, especially in Lebanon, so it is necessary for us to show our attitude

Thousands of Palestinian refugees are fleeing from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as five days of fighting by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath

THE PRESS here is portraying the opposition movement headed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, that is attempting to challenge the Siniora government, as a movement that is provoking sectarian conflict.

In the first high-profile meeting between top Sunni and Shiite scholars, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s influential Expediency

One of the most legendary figures of the Palestinian struggle for national liberation, Leila Khaled was recently in the Palestinian refugee camps of northern Lebanon. Visiting for the first time