Arab summit opens to dissentThe two-day Arab summit of "accord and agreement" opening here today became a summit of discord and disagreement as soon as foreign…Tue Mar 27 2001 - 01:00
The best of carpets, the warmest of hospitalityAtaturk has had his revenge on Aleppo and the Syrians. Whole neighbourhoods of the city seem more Anatolian than ArabTue Mar 20 2001 - 00:00
The `Damascus Spring' of political change is well under waySatellite dishes blossom like daisies on apartment blocks, mobile phones pop up everywhere like weeds and an Internet restaurant…Thu Mar 01 2001 - 00:00
Powell discusses Iraq pipeline with SyriaThe US Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell, made a two-hour visit to Damascus last night during his four-day tour of the Middle…Tue Feb 27 2001 - 00:00
Palestinians doomed to crisis as authority approaches collapseThe US, the UN and Israel agree that the Palestine National Authority is approaching collapseSat Feb 17 2001 - 00:00
Arab ministers press for talks resumptionArab foreign ministers ended a two-day meeting in Amman yesterday by urging Israel to resume negotiations with the Palestinians…Mon Feb 12 2001 - 00:00
Arafat's authority hurt by Sharon winThe Palestine Authority faces its most serious challenge ever due to the victory of the Likud candidate in Israel's prime ministerial…Fri Feb 09 2001 - 00:00
Lebanon says Sharon will take revenge for resistanceThe reaction of Arab governments to the election in Israel was generally cautious while official media expressed deep apprehension…Thu Feb 08 2001 - 00:00
Annan to scale down UN force in LebanonThe beginning of the end for the UN's 23-year-old peacekeeping force in Lebanon came late on Tuesday with a recommendation that…Thu Jan 25 2001 - 00:00
Iranians jailed over Berlin meetingA revolutionary court in Tehran on Saturday sentenced seven dissidents to terms of imprisonment for undermining state security…Mon Jan 15 2001 - 00:00
Libya denies oil negotiations with BulaLibya's National Oil Company (NOC) has categorically denied reports of negotiations on oil permits with Ireland's Bula Resource…Mon Jan 08 2001 - 00:00
US peace proposal details to be soughtThe Palestinian Authority was expected to neither accept nor reject the US peace proposal but to ask for clarifications, details…Thu Dec 28 2000 - 00:00
Besieged Bethlehem has plenty of room at innThe little town of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, will mark his 2,000th birthday on Christmas Eve simply with a midnight…Tue Dec 19 2000 - 00:00
Arabs welcome Bush and Republicans as less pro-IsraelThe belated victory of Mr George WSat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
Iraq threatens to cut oil exports in dispute with UN over revenueIn a carefully calculated attempt to break out of the 10year-old sanctions regime Baghdad is threatening to cut oil exports on…Tue Nov 28 2000 - 00:00
Palestinian speaker lists conditions to end revoltA leading figure in the Palestine Authority yesterday laid down conditions for ending the uprising against IsraelMon Nov 27 2000 - 00:00
Pressure on UN to debate Israeli shellingThe Cairo-based Arab League and the Egyptian-led Arab group at the UN have stepped up pressure on the Security Council to debate…Thu Nov 23 2000 - 00:00
Arab nations no longer prepared to ostracise IraqAircraft from Arab and European countries continued to land at Baghdad's Saddam International Airport yesterday in spite of a…Thu Nov 02 2000 - 00:00
Palestinian demonstrations now directed against ArafatDemonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza yesterday differed from those of the past two weeksTue Oct 17 2000 - 01:00
Israeli officer's seizure timed to encourage Palestinian risingHizbullah appears to have escalated its war of attrition against Israel by capturing an Israeli reserve army officer outside …Mon Oct 16 2000 - 01:00
Lebanese soldiers prevent anti-Israel protests on borderThe Lebanese army yesterday prevented Palestinians from holding anti-Israeli protests at flashpoints along the border with the…Sat Oct 14 2000 - 01:00
Palestinian youths want to open new war front on borderIt was only a matter of time before unbridled Palestinian anger precipitated a conventional Israeli military assault on the self…Fri Oct 13 2000 - 01:00
Hizbullah takes hard line on prisoner releaseHizbullah is not prepared to discuss the details of negotiations over the fate of three Israeli soldiers captured by the movement…Thu Oct 12 2000 - 01:00
Arab world united by events in TerritoriesThe divided Arab world has been reunified by the events in the Palestinian territories and southern LebanonMon Oct 09 2000 - 01:00
Arab leaders blaming Israel for provoking four days of clashesIsrael has been widely condemned in the Arab and Muslim worlds for the violent clashes with Palestinians in the occupied territories…Mon Oct 02 2000 - 01:00
Kingdom poised between tradition and modernityJordan lies betwixt desert and town, tradition and modernity, monarchy and democracy, native Jordanians and Palestinian refugees…Mon Sept 18 2000 - 01:00
Peace talks are expected to resume today after Palestine defers statehood declarationThe PEACE talks between the Palestinians and Israelis are expected to resume today following a weekend decision by the Palestinian…Tue Sept 12 2000 - 01:00
Arafat likely to be given time by councilThe 129-member Palestine Central Council is to meet in Gaza today to debate whether to declare a Palestinian state on September…Sat Sept 09 2000 - 01:00
Lebanon poll changes faces but not policiesSunday's parliamentary election in Lebanon transformed the political landscape, but the new order is unlikely to make the changes…Tue Sept 05 2000 - 01:00
PM ousted in Lebanese pollLebanon seemed headed for a major political upheaval yesterday as opposition candidates scored a stunning success in the second…Mon Sept 04 2000 - 01:00
Iranian parliament passes reformist investment billThe Iranian parliament yesterday approved a draft bill which challenges the Islamic Republic's revolutionary ideology and policy…Thu Aug 24 2000 - 01:00
Arafat to `reassess' declaration of statehoodThe Palestinian leadership is likely to scrap its plan to declare an independent state on September 13thFri Aug 18 2000 - 01:00
Iraq claims oil-for-food supplies were hit in US-British raid that killed twoAnglo-US air strikes over the weekend aimed at the Iraqi city of Samawa, 270 km south of Baghdad, hit a regional ration distribution…Mon Aug 14 2000 - 01:00
Chavez angers US with visit to BaghdadThe Venezuelan President, Mr Hugo Chavez, yesterday became the first foreign head of state to visit Iraq since the end of the…Fri Aug 11 2000 - 01:00
Lebanese forces enter the former Israeli zoneLebanese security forces moved before dawn yesterday into Israel's former occupation zone along the borderThu Aug 10 2000 - 01:00
Spirit of Othello haunts old Famagusta and gives it celebrityThe road from Nicosia to Famagusta crosses the stiffling, flat Mesaoria plain, bleached beige by the unrelenting summer sunFri Aug 04 2000 - 01:00
Clinton remarks anger Arab statesQuestions have been raised in the Arab world about Washington's credibility as "honest broker" in negotiations between Palestinians…Mon Jul 31 2000 - 01:00
Irish troops camp on Lebanese borderIrish and Ghanaian soldiers were the first UN peacekeepers to carry out the 22-year-old mandate of the Security Council by taking…Sat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
UNIFIL move to south delayedThe deployment of UN peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon has been indefinitely postponed because of new Israeli encroachments…Wed Jul 26 2000 - 01:00
Clerides presses for UN federal formula for CyprusThe third round of UN-brokered proximity talks on a Cyprus settlement resumed yesterday in Geneva with the two sides responding…Tue Jul 25 2000 - 01:00
Turkish Cypriots protest over dominant role of the militaryThe streets and squares of the Turkish Cypriot sector of Nicosia were filled with protesters last night as preparations continued…Wed Jul 19 2000 - 01:00
Palestinians see little hope of breakthroughThe Palestinians reluctantly agreed to attend next week's Camp David summit because they could not refuse to do soFri Jul 07 2000 - 01:00
Price of crude oil dips under $30 after Saudi pledge to raise outputCrude oil fell below $30 in London yesterday after the world's largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia's announcement on Monday that…Wed Jul 05 2000 - 01:00
1,000 Ba'ath delegates ensure smooth handover from Assad to BasharOne thousand delegates attending the ninth congress of the Syrian Ba'ath Party unanimously elected Dr Bashar al-Assad, son of…Mon Jun 26 2000 - 01:00
Radical-turned-moderate becomes new speaker in Iran's reformist parliamentA veteran radical-turned-moderate, Mr Mehdi Karroubi, was elected yesterday to the influential post of speaker of Iran's first…Wed May 31 2000 - 01:00
Hizbullah moves to consolidate its political gains in LebanonNow that the "Lesser Jihad", the battle against Israel, has been won, Hizbullah is focusing on the "Greater Jihad", the struggle…Tue May 30 2000 - 01:00
Music of children laughing fills hills of LebanonThe gates of Kafr Tibnit stand wide openFri May 26 2000 - 01:00
Beirut empties in joyous return southBeirut emptied itself into the liberated south yesterdayThu May 25 2000 - 01:00
Reformists finally take control in IranIran's Guardian Council validated on Saturday the long-awaited parliamentary results of the 30-member Tehran constituency, giving…Mon May 22 2000 - 01:00
