The serenity of Ibrahim Monzer Street in Ashrafieh in the eastern suburbs of Beirut was shattered Friday when a bomb exploded, setting this predominately Christian quarter ablaze. Coincidently, just down the street, 31 years earlier, a much bigger...
A year has elapsed since the onset of the Syrian revolution against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The ruthlessness by which the Assad regime has addressed this revolution attests to its refusal to seriously reform or to even contemplate a peaceful...