JERUSALEM (AFP) -
Israel has successfully tested a new defence system designed to intercept rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, public radio reported on Sunday.
The "Iron Dome" system is expected to be fully
SANA, YEMEN -- A brutal insurgency rages in the northern highlands. Separatist discontent grows in the south. Al Qaeda is moving in, targeting oil facilities and foreigners as well as ordinary Yemenis. In the latest unrest, at least five people were
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film has touched a nerve because it mirrors a national phenomenon.
Israel's wars are very much alive in the country's consciousness, serving as milestones in a national narrative of tragedy and grit. One, however, is
They are the RAF’s newest squadron, flying crack missions against the Taliban over Afghanistan – but these pilots never have to leave the ground.
Instead the men of 39 Squadron work by remote control out of a darkened room in the Nevada Desert, 8,000
In August 1978, Musa al Sadr's disappearance six months prior to the eruption of the Iranian revolution was not the mere absenting of an individual but the loss of a mode of thought, perception and vision. Not only did al Sadr's disappearance affect
Hope and Despair in the Air
"Differences among the Lebanese have reached the edge of suicide."
- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, in a meeting of the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders after renewed violence in the city of
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese leaders are close to a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday.
Lebanon is reported to be on the verge of announcing a new government, following months of political deadlock.
BEIRUT, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Shiite militant group Hezbollah delivered a report to Israel saying that Israeli airman Ron Arad, reported missing in Lebanon since 1986, has been dead for more than 10 years, local Naharnet website reported Saturday.
Lebanese leaders are close to a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday.
They said the new government, in which Hezbollah and its