Lebanon's government was swept from power Monday night in the face of a mass protest and increased political pressure sparked by the assassination of former...
Analysis The anger simmering in this country since the unprecedented extension of President Emile Lahoud's term of office last September finally found a vocal...
If the crowds who gathered in downtown Beirut are anything to go by, Rafik Hariri's most lasting legacy to Lebanon may well be that he has firmly united the...
Analysis The bomb blast that murdered former premier Rafik Hariri along with eight others and ripped though downtown Beirut has cast a giant cloud over...
Analysis: BEIRUT: Oil prices are surging again. This time the much maligned International Energy Agency is to blame, after it sharply increased its...
Sharm el-sheikh analysis BEIRUT: Talk of "historic agreements" and "new opportunities" filled the air following yesterday's declaration from Sharm el-Sheikh....
BEIRUT: Following a global symbol is no easy act, and Mahmoud Abbas's expected ballot box success on Sunday will undoubtedly lend him a legitimacy he hitherto...
Saudi Arabia has threatened to impose tariffs on foreign goods imported through Bahrain unless Manana abandons its free trade agreement with the United...
Events in the Middle East this year were overshadowed by the death of Yasser Arafat. The global symbol of the struggle for Palestinian statehood for more than...
BEIRUT: Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday for talks with Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz. The surprise move...
BEIRUT: The dollar slumped to an all time low against the euro in late European trading, tumbling to $1.3502 against the resurgent single currency. The...
MANAMA: Gulf Cooperation Council leaders ended the Zayed Summit Tuesday without resolving a bitter dispute over Bahrain's trade deal with the U.S. which led...
Analysis MANAMA: Amid the colorful pomp and circumstance of Monday's official opening to the Zayed Summit, there was a somewhat surreal feeling. The late...
MANAMA: Bahraini Labor Minister Majeed al-Alawi announced Sunday the GCC is considering limiting the number of years expatriate workers can stay in the...
MANAMA: The Gulf Cooperation Council conference opens Monday amid an increasingly unstable security situation in Iraq and a trade disagreement between Saudi...
BEIRUT: As a strategy for rescuing the plummeting price of a barrel of oil, OPEC's much touted production cut on Friday was about as much use as breaking wind...
BEIRUT: Oil hit a four-month low Friday despite OPEC's decision to cut output by around 4 per cent in a bid to reverse the recent sharp fall in prices. OPEC's...
BEIRUT: Controversial British parliamentarian George Galloway threw his weight behind Fatah firebrand Marwan Barghouti in next month's Palestinian elections...
Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti declared his candidacy for president on Wednesday, in a stunning last-minute reversal that shook up...
The irony that Yasser Arafat should die in bed in a hospital outside Paris having survived countless assassination attempts and a plane crash in the Libyan...
BEIRUT: Since Arafat's hospitalization 10 days ago, his wife has attempted to tightly control both access to her ailing husband and information about his...
DAMASCUS: Syrian Head of State Planning Abdallah Dardari is fond of describing himself as a mere technocrat. It is an accurate description on one level, but...
DAMASCUS: Syrian Head of State Planning Abdallah Dardari stepped up the campaign for economic and political change in Damascus, insisting there is "no taboo...
BEIRUT: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has failed to groom a successor, but whatever the outcome of his illness, few believe he will be in a position to...