Hezbollah-Hamas Relations 'Good' Despite Beirut Bombing Accusations

Sources close to Hezbollah claim ties with Hamas remain on relatively good terms despite disagreements and accusations that Hamas was involved in bombing a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut.

Palestine

Who's Behind Attempts to Spread Chaos in Lebanon?

According to a senior former Lebanese security official, jihadists are carrying out a series of attacks in Lebanon to draw the country into a civil war.

Palestine

Turkey's Foreign Policy: Slip-Up or Success?

While Turkey boasts foreign policy successes in the Middle East, these measures could be more accurately described as blunders.

Egypt

Israel Urged to Speak Out Against Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

A philosopher, a poet, a writer and a Nazi hunter call for Israel to take a firm stance against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Israel

UN Leader's Visit to Israel Shows Waning US Influence in Mideast

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the region and his meetings with Israeli leaders show how the West is losing control over Middle East events.  

Israel

Is Hypernationalism The New Islamism?

Islamism in the Middle East may have met a match in the hypernationalism taking hold in Egypt and Syria.

Egypt

Lebanon Caught in Middle Of Iranian-Saudi 'Cold War'

Lebanon’s unique position in the Arab Levant means it has been inevitably caught up in the back and forth of Iran and Saudi Arabia’s proxy war in the region.

Saudi Arabia

Iraqi Kurdistan Struggles With Influx of Syrian Refugees

Like other countries in the region struggling to take in the huge influx of Syrian refugees fleeing the war at home, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has not received the international support needed to do so.

Iraq

Lebanon Risks Becoming More Like Iraq Than Syria

The nature of back-and-forth Shiite-Sunni fighting in Lebanon more closely resembles the conflict raging in Iraq than the one in neighboring Syria.

Iraq

Syria's Alawites Torn Between Regime, Opposition

While many analysts inside and outside Syria seem to assume Syrian Alawites support President Bashar al-Assad’s Baathist regime, the reality on the ground is much more nuanced.

Syria

Nasrallah Threatens to Double Hezbollah Forces in Syria

Responding to the Aug. 15. bombing of a Hezbollah neighborhood in Beirut, which killed 22 people, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to escalate the war with the "takfiris" in Syria.

Lebanon

Lebanese Officials Speculate On Israeli Role in Beirut Bombing

After the blast that killed more than 20 people in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Aug. 15, several Lebanese politicians have accused Israel of being involved.

Israel