MIDEAST: Israel Doesn’t Want to Know Carter Any More

Three decades after he brokered the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has become persona non grata in the Jewish state.

EGYPT: Opposition Finds Renewed Strength

What was planned as a workers' strike at a major textiles company turned into a nationwide protest against skyrocketing food prices Apr 6. Over the days following, the opposition has found renewed strength.

MIDEAST: Israel Prepares for Some Dire Scenarios

Salvo after salvo of missiles and rockets fired by Syria, Hezbollah and Gaza militants thudding into Israel's major population centres. Hundreds dead. Thousands injured.

IRAQ: Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters

Fallujah remains a crippled city years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault.

MIDEAST: No Ambulance, Call the Radio

"I am bleeding uncontrollably, I need an ambulance." That was not a call to emergency services, it was an appeal broadcast live on radio in Gaza City.

IRAQ: From One Dictator to the Next

Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.

LEBANON: Fleeing a Refugee Camp for Refuge

Music resonates down the rundown streets of Beddawi, an overpopulated suburb of Tripoli. People have moved into garages and covered the entrance with bed sheets in a feeble attempt at privacy.

MIDEAST: Disputes Surface in Israel Over Bread

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's latest headache has nothing to do with the Palestinians, or with Syria, or Iran, or even Hezbollah. It has to do with leavened bread.

Q&A: Crossing the Red Lines in Egypt

Launched in 1995, Al-Dustour was closed by the government three years later after publishing articles critical of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Following a judicial decree, the newspaper began printing again in 2005.

IRAQ: A Little Too Tense to Be Truce

As violence continues in Baghdad and southern Iraq, it seems quiet on the surface in Baquba, the volatile city 40km north of Baghdad. But few believe truce between the U.S.-backed Awakening Groups and the government security forces can last.

IRAQ: Shia Battles Spread to Baquba

Battles between rival Shia groups have spread from Basra in the south to Baquba in the north.

MIDEAST: Gaza Running on Near Empty

Ayman Eid stands as motionless as his orange Hyundai taxi. Never mind taking a passenger somewhere, Ayman has no idea how he will ever get home.

MIDEAST: Israel and Syria Flirt Dangerously

With negotiations on the Palestinian track limping along unproductively, Israeli leaders have again begun talking about renewing peace negotiations with Syria. But at the same time they are keeping a wary eye on new deployments by the Syrian military.

MIDEAST: Olmert Is Taking a Long Time Sinking

Ehud Olmert's most outstanding achievement during his first two years as prime minister is the fact he is still in office. The Israeli prime minister, who has just marked the second anniversary of his March 2006 electoral triumph, has turned political survival into an art form, defying incessant predictions of his demise by his political colleagues and many of the country's leading political pundits.

MOROCCO: Consumers Unprotected, Activists Disarmed

NGOs are stepping in to support consumers in the absence of a law to protect them.

MIDEAST: This ‘Bombshell’ Took a Year Falling

A recent article in Vanity Fair magazine "exposing" a U.S.-planned coup attempt against Palestinian resistance movement Hamas last year has ignited a storm of debate about Washington's Middle East policies. Yet for more than nine months, details of the plot were reported in the independent Arabic press - and elsewhere - leading some observers to ask: where was the mainstream media?

IRAQ: ‘Handed Over’ to a Government Called Sadr

Despite the huge media campaign led by U.S. officials and a complicit corporate-controlled media to convince the world of U.S. success in Iraq, emerging facts on the ground show massive failure.

MIDEAST: Another Arab Tea Party Ends

The 20th Arab League summit, convened earlier this week in the Syrian capital Damascus, drew relatively few heads of state, with both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz choosing to stay at home. According to local commentators, the low level of diplomatic representation served to show up Syria's isolation within the otherwise U.S.-dominated Arab fold.

IRAQ: Divided Arabs Deliver Little

The Arab summit held in Damascus over this weekend has convinced many Iraqis that Arab leaders do not speak for them.

/CORRECTED REPEAT*/IRAQ: Blackwater Fever Comes In New Ways

Iraqi doctors in al-Anbar province warn of the spread of Blackwater fever, a complication of malaria. Many Iraqis see that name as ominously one with Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. mercenary company operating in Iraq.

MIDEAST: Palestinians Not Helping Themselves Either

A deal currently being discussed by Israel and Egypt would see Israel sever a major tie with the Gaza Strip. Under the agreement, Egypt would become the sole external supplier of power to Gaza, replacing Israel which is today the major provider of electricity to the coastal strip.