The Obama administration's decision to withdraw the bulk of United States troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide-scale and debilitating violence that it endured from 2004 to 2007. Those fears are, for the most part, overblown.|Full Story
Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip in January of this year threatened to wreck the unique relationship between Turkey and Israel. This begs the question: could or should a crisis between Israel and a third party bring about a deep transformation in the bilateral relations that have been developing between the two countries for more than 15 years?|Full Story
Modern miracles do happen. Ten years ago, as the Asian financial crisis savaged Indonesia's economy, many experts predicted that the country would become unstable, if not splinter. Instead, Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic country, has emerged as a beacon of freedom and democracy for the Muslim world. |Full Story
It is tragic to watch our Lebanon, with its great people and potential, deteriorate before the eyes of the world. The deterioration have even reached its service sector, our main revenue stream. Lebanon's service excellence and efficiency is legendary. The decline has been dramatic.|Full Story
We heard you express your regrets regarding the casualties of Israel's ravaging war against my country, Lebanon. I hope you have been furnished with a true profile of the atrocities being perpetrated in my country. You pose as being at war with terrorism. Let me honestly tell you: Charity starts at home. |Full Story
The odd thing about the demonstrations this week commemorating the 10th anniversary of the imprisonment of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was that most participants were too young to remember his deeds and misdeeds.|Full Story
There is something about 29th anniversaries that leaves one cold, and there was indeed much public indifference earlier this week, when Lebanon commemorated that memento of the start of its cycle of wars - civil and uncivil - in 1975.|Full Story
