A massive car bomb shook Beirut this morning, exploding in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafiya and killing at least eight. The explosion threatens to reignite the sectarian tensions that were behind the country’s destructive civil war and which continue to plague the country. The security situation in Lebanon has...

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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice insisted at a United Nations Security Council meeting yeserday that Hezbollah is part of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad’s “killing machine” and must be countered firmly by the international community. The ambassador’s stance echoes that of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor,...

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The Syrian civil war also impacted the Syrian-Israeli border yesterday, as dozens of armed men congregated on the Syrian side of the cease-fire line on the Golan Heights. The provocation, which led Israel to promptly shut down a tourist site as a precaution, follows several mortar shells which were fired into...

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The post-Arab Spring Middle East is coalescing into new and potentially destabilizing camps, according to analysts commenting on Hamas’s move out of the Syrian-Iranian orbit and into that of Egypt. Syrian state television lashed out at Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, a former ally of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, after Mashaal attended...

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Two months of attacks on Aleppo by the Assad regime have left the historic Syrian city in ruins. Municipal services have been cut, leaving neighborhoods without electricity or drinking water, health centers closed, and police stations abandoned. Reports have consistently noted uncollected corpses left uncollected in the open. On Monday, a mortar...

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