Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses followers in Beirut
Lebanese Moslem Shiite women carry posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs on May 26, 2008. Nasrallah addressed his supporters on this the eighth anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon. Tens of thousands of supporters came out to listen to his televised speech. (UPI Photo)
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U.N. experts began field visits in Syria Sunday, starting the process of destroying the country's chemical arsenal, a source told Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Hezbollah has long-range missiles capable of carrying chemical warheads that are stored in underground sites in Lebanon, a Lebanese lawmaker said.
Even as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeks to stymie U.S. efforts to negotiate a reconciliation with Iran, his government's trying to persuade Washington to boost U.S. military aid to ensure funding for the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic weapon intended to counter Iranian missiles.
For some security analysts, the recent bloodbath in Nairobi's premier shopping mall, in the heart of the Kenyan capital, underlines how terrorists are targeting major cities across Asia and Africa, just as an earlier generation wreaked havoc in Europe's major cities in the 1960s and 70s.
Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Wednesday there are no longer checkpoints manned by Hezbollah in the country.
President Bashar Assad will never give up his chemical stockpile or reveal where the deadly agents are, a Syrian general who defected warned.
Israel is seeking to tighten its links with Azerbaijan, the oil-rich former Soviet Republic that borders Iran, to secure a strategic alliance that has already provided invaluable in the Jewish state's smoldering conflict with the Islamic Republic.
Israel Aerospace Industries won a contract to supply the navy with three Super Dvora-class Mark III fast patrol craft to bolster maritime security.
Any Lebanese nationals fighting in neighboring Syria should return home for the sake of national security, a Lebanese lawmaker said.
Newly installed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been on a charm offensive this month trying to convince the West Tehran has no intention of building nuclear weapons but whether he actually reflects the true intent of the mullahs who actually run the country or is just blowing smoke is a complicated question.
