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November 10, 2009: For the last five years, satellite photos have shown continuing constructing of an underground bunker complex north of Damascus, Syria, This is believed to be the control center for the national air defense system.
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri will announce a new national unity government in the next two days after clinching a deal with the opposition on its make-up, politicians from both sides said on Saturday.
THE HOUSE AND SENATE BHRC records local representatives’ votes on three roll calls from the week of October 26-30. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week. RETAIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING (H 4298) House 153-0, approved a bill that would require owners of “expiring use” affordable housing to notify a tenant at least two years before bringing a unit’s rent back to market rates.
A Canadian man who was detained at a New York airport and then moved to Syria, where he says he was tortured, cannot sue the United States, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
November 8, 2009: A few thousand years ago, nearly everyone lived in a tribal (a collection of families and clans related by blood) culture. But since then, the tribal social relationships have faded, superseded by kingdoms and nations.
November 8, 2009: Greece has joined the growing list of countries that are putting more emphasis on having the best trained troops in their combat units.
Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed government line-up, Hezbollah said on Saturday, paving the way to the end of five months of tortuous negotiations following a June general election.
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. Just this week, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York City, dismissed Arar’s case against the government officials (including FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Homeland Security Secretary ...
Hezbollah's backers Iran and Syria are hindering the formation of a cabinet in Lebanon, which has been without government since a general vote in June, Christian leader Samir Geagea said on Monday.
Three Americans who were arrested by Iranian border guards in late July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq have been charged with espionage, a top Iranian prosecutor said Monday.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has significantly expanded its ability to strike deep into Israel with rockets that can now reach the Jewish state's largest cities, and now possesses tens of thousands of projectiles, Israel's army chief said Tuesday.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s Saad Hariri , the prime minister-designate tasked with forming a government since June parliamentary elections, was confirmed today by President Michel Suleiman as premier for a national unity government.
Three Americans who were arrested by Iranian border guards in late July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq have been charged with espionage, a top Iranian prosecutor said Monday.
A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial. Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, all graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. They were arrested July 31 after straying over the Iranian border from northern Iraq. The U.S. government and their ...
Statement is signal that the three U.C. Berkeley grads likely to be put on trial
A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.
