Robert Fisk, Independent UK. June 8, 2009. Lebanon's new government of "national salvation" will be run by an ex-army general-president with ever-increasing powers.
Jared Levy, Ali Gharib, IPS News. June 6, 2009. Many analysts view the elections through the lens of the struggle between U.S. and Iranian regional hegemonic aspirations.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. May 28, 2009. In Syria, Sudan and elsewhere there have been violent attacks that no country has claimed responsibility for. A dark new trend in warfare.
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. May 20, 2009. Author Susan Galleymore shares her dramatic encounters with mothers living in Mid-East war zones and American military moms.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. April 30, 2009. A unique civilization that has existed in Iraq for thousands of years, the marsh Arabs survived Saddam but now are losing a battle against nature.
Jennifer Utz, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. What most Americans don't know about Syria -- a nation vilified by the U.S. that has also absorbed 2 million Iraqi refugees -- might surprise you.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 14, 2009. We learned a fair amount today about Hillary Clinton's thinking on the peace process in the Middle East.
Faisal Abbas, Asharq Al-Awsat. December 25, 2008. The New Yorker's star reporter discusses Abu Ghraib, the "war on terror," and why U.S. reporters don't pay enough attention to the Arab press.
Jennifer Utz, AlterNet. November 15, 2008. From 2007 to 2008, I spent five months in Syria with Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee. Now, we are roommates in New York City.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 10, 2008. By the time it was over, eight people had been killed, at least seven of whom were civilians, including three children.
Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman. November 1, 2008. The attack give Iraq's neighbors proof that the presence of U.S. troops on Iraq's soil is a major reason to worry.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. October 30, 2008. If standard U.S. military doctrine claims any country can be declared "criminal" and lose its sovereignty, the answer is yes.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. October 28, 2008. The attack, which killed eight, was labeled "terrorist aggression" by Syria and is an unexpected expansion of the Iraq war.
Zainab Mineeia, IPS News. October 10, 2008. The U.S. has "met its target" of letting in 12,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal 2008 -- but there are 90,000 Iraqis seeking resettlement here.
Iraqi Refugee Stories AlterNet: War on IraqSeptember 19, 2008. Watch "Hiba's Story," one in a powerful new series of video accounts by Iraqis who have had to flee their home.
Dominique Soguel, Women's eNews. September 16, 2008. Syria just opened its first shelter for battered women. But authorities still tolerate families who consider it honorable to kill their kinswomen.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. August 18, 2008. Among the defendants in the lawsuit by extraordinary rendition Maher Arar are John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, and Robert Mueller.
Emily Feder, AlterNet. August 18, 2008. I was recently stopped by Homeland Security as I was returning from a trip to Syria. What I saw in the hours that followed shocked and disturbed me.
Center for Constitutional RightsAugust 14, 2008. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will revisit the case of the Canadian citizen who was kidnapped at JFK Airport and sent to Syria to be tortured.
Center for Constitutional RightsJuly 1, 2008. Citing national security, a federal court rules that Maher Arar, who was kidnapped at JFK and sent to Syria by the U.S., had no due process rights.
Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. June 19, 2008. The world community, especially the West, is erecting fresh obstacles to prevent Iraqi refugees from settling across its borders.
Jim Lobe, Khody Akhavi, May 26, 2008. Engagement -- known as "appeasement" in the neo-conservative lexicon -- is bursting out all over the Middle East.
