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POLITICS-US: Hard-line Neo-Cons Assail Israel for Timidity
While much of the world has criticised Israel for carrying out a "disproportionate" war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, hard-line neo-conservatives have attacked the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for timidity.MIDEAST: Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in U.S. Course
Alarms are definitely on the rise here... And it's not just because the British police arrested 21 people who were allegedly plotting to bomb up to 10 jetliners between London and the United States in mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Although that probably didn't help.MIDEAST: Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in U.S. Course
Alarms are definitely on the rise here.POLITICS-US: Neo-Conservatives’ “Favourite Democrat” Falls
Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of President George W. Bush's "favourite Democrat", Sen. Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East.SUDAN: Darfur Peace Accord Yields More Violence
Three months after the signing of the U.S.- and U.N.-backed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), violence and chaos are once again on the rise in Sudan's westernmost region, according to aid groups and Sudan experts here.MIDEAST: U.S. Watches Dreams of Transformation Dissolve
Entering the fourth week of war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, the George W. Bush administration's ambitions to transform the Arab Middle East into a pro-Western, more democratic region are fading fast.MIDEAST: U.S. Watches Dreams of Transformation Dissolve
Entering the fourth week of war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, the George W. Bush administration's ambitions to transform the Arab Middle East into a pro-Western, more democratic region are fading fast.MIDEAST: Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes
In systematically failing to distinguish between Hezbollah fighters and civilian population in its three-and-a-half-week-old military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have committed war crimes, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch Wednesday.CUBA: Fidel’s Brother at the Helm, But No Change in U.S. Policy for Now
Uncertain about the condition of long-time U.S. nemesis, Cuban President Fidel Castro, the administration of President George W. Bush said Tuesday it would not alter its policy toward the Caribbean nation with which it has had no regular diplomatic communications for most of the past six years.MIDEAST: Republican Realists Call for Major Course Change
Some of the Republican Party's most venerable foreign policy strategists are calling urgently for a major course change in U.S. policy in the Middle East, but neither the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush nor Republicans in Congress appear inclined to pay much heed.MIDEAST: Sunni-Shia Split Fades as Israel Presses Campaign
Hopes by the George W. Bush administration for the emergence of an implicit Sunni-Israel alliance against an Iranian-led "Shia Crescent" have faded over the past week as Arab public opinion has become increasingly united by outrage over the Jewish state's continuing military campaign in Lebanon and Washington's refusal to stop it, according to Middle East experts here.POLITICS-US: Mideast Figures High in Battle Over Bolton
One year after Democrats succeeded in blocking Senate confirmation of John Bolton as Washington's ambassador to the United Nations, the White House has once again thrown down the gauntlet, demanding that its least diplomatic diplomat be confirmed in the post for the balance of President George W. Bush's term.POLITICS: Damascus Now Seen As Pivotal in Mideast Crisis
Mocked just months ago as a fool and a lightweight compared to his legendarily shrewd father, Syrian President Bashar Assad appears increasingly to have become the "go-to guy" in resolving the two-week-old war between Hezbollah and Israel.MIDEAST: Backing for Israel Stymies Larger US Aims in Region
Washington's strong backing - hedged by occasional calls for restraint - for Israel's 10-day-old military campaign in Lebanon has won it very few friends in the Arab world, despite recent criticism of Hezbollah by pro-U.S. governments in the region, according to a range of regional and foreign policy experts.MIDEAST: Backing for Israel Stymies Larger US Aims in Region
Washington's strong backing - hedged by occasional calls for restraint - for Israel's 10-day-old military campaign in Lebanon has won it very few friends in the Arab world, despite recent criticism of Hezbollah by pro-U.S. governments in the region, according to a range of regional and foreign policy experts.POLITICS: Mideast Conflict Boosts Chances of Iran-US Showdown
The week-old Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is likely to boost the chances of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a number of regional experts who see a broad consensus among the U.S. political elite that the ongoing hostilities are part of a broader offensive being waged by Tehran against Washington across the region.POLITICS-US: Mideast Conflict Boosts Chances of Iran-US Showdown
The week-old Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is likely to boost the chances of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a number of regional experts who see a broad consensus among the U.S. political elite that the ongoing hostilities are part of a broader offensive being waged by Tehran against Washington across the region.POLITICS-US: Back to Sunni Authoritarians?
After posing as the champion of democratic reform and the long oppressed Shia minority in the Arab world, the administration of President George W. Bush appears to be scurrying back to Washington's traditional policy of strong support for the region's Sunni-dominated, pro-U.S. authoritarian governments.POLITICS: Energised Neo-Cons Say Israel’s Fight Is Washington’s
Seeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neo-conservatives are calling for unconditional U.S. support for Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah./REPEAT/POLITICS-US: Cowboy Diplomacy Is Not Dead Yet
"We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it."IRAN: Poll Suggests Strong Nationalism, Anti-U.S. Sentiment
While only one in four Iranians believe that developing nuclear weapons should be their government's most important long-term goal, more than half say that economic hardship should not deter the country from pursuing its nuclear programme, according to a new survey released here Thursday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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