3 September 2010, 3:48 pm
Russian diplomat Yuri Ivanov, 52, whose body was found washed up on a Turkish beach in early August, is reportedly one of Russia's top spies and an agent for Russia's clandestine military intelligence agency GRU - " an agency specializing in foreign espionage.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 11:38 am
The chief of the Russian Federal Security Services, the intelligence agency that grew out of the KGB, in the Tsumandi District of Dagestan in the Northern Caucasus, was killed when assassins blew up his official car outside his home.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 9:33 am
Lebanon is waiting. The results of one of the world's most potentially explosive murder investigations - into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri - will emerge in the coming months.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 7:24 am
Casualties in explosion at Hizballah weapons store in South Lebanese town of Sheyabiyyeh Friday a The building belongs to the Sallooum family, Hizballah adherents a UNIFIL helicopters hovered over site east of Tyre in area where UN Resolution 1701 bans weapons a Hizballah denies the building was an ... Read More »
3 September 2010, 5:18 am
BEIRUT: Politicians on Thursday continued to debate whether the capital should be free of "weapons." A chorus of calls for an "arms-free" Beirut triggered by a deadly battle outside mosque last week is fast fading after Hizbullah warned against any attempt to disarm it.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 12:59 am
DAMASCUS // Syria always feared that the White House of George W Bush and Dick Cheney would invade Damascus once it had dispatched with Baghdad in 2003 and, in his newly released memoirs, the former British prime minister Tony Blair confirmed those fears were well founded.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 9:54 pm
The following is a profile of members of the Palestinian delegation to Washington to engage in direct peace talks with Israel in Sept., 2010.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 5:46 pm
As noted in Andrew Bostom's essay debunking the just-can't-shake-it myth of Islamic "tolerance" in Muslim Spain, by the middle of the 8th century, the cathedral in Cordoba dedicated to Saint Vincent had been "converted" to a Muslim mosque.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 1:41 pm
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi , better known by his pen-name as Sa'di or, simply, Sa'di, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 8:26 am
Fareed Zakaria has been taken to task, particularly by defenders of Israel, for a segment recently broadcast on his CNN interview programme.... Read More »
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