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Global warming to have heavy impact on Arab states

Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit. Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Taiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Hassan Nasrallah re-elected as Hezbollah leader

BEIRUT—The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term. A Hezbollah statement Thursday did not say when top Hezbollah officials voted to re-elect Nasrallah as the guerrilla ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Hassan Nasrallah

Rival Lebanon factions agree on unity government

BEIRUT—Lebanon's Syrian-backed factions finally agreed on a unity government proposed by their pro-Western rivals on Saturday, ending a four-month deadlock in the deeply divided country. The announcement by the opposition coalition dominated by the ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Hassan Nasrallah,  Saad Hariri

American deported to Lebanon denies terror charges

Naji Hamdan, an American of Lebanese origin, looks from the balcony of his home, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday Nov. 5, 2009. Hamdan was recently convicted by a United Arab Emirates court on terrorism related charges, but denied any involvement during ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Naji Hamdan,  Al-Qaeda,  American Civil Liberties Union,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Lebanese army dismantles 4 rockets near Israel

A senior Lebanese army official says troops have found and dismantled four rockets near the border with Israel, a day after a rocket hit the Jewish state. The attack Tuesday drew a rapid response from Israeli artillery in a brief flare-up across ...

From BASSEM MROUE, eTaiwan News,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah

Experts find rare Crusader-era murals in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria—Archaeologists have discovered two Crusader-era murals depicting heaven and hell in a medieval church on Syria's coast -- a rare find that could reveal new information about the Christian knights who battled Muslims for control of the ...

From ALBERT AJI AND BASSEM MROUE, Boston Globe,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pope Urban II

Exploding shell caused blast at Hezbollah home

BEIRUT - A blast at a Hezbollah member's home in southern Lebanon was caused by an exploding shell and injured one person, Lebanon's army said Tuesday. ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  United Nations,  Shimon Peres,  Michael Williams

Grenade wounds 8 people in northern Lebanon

An unknown assailant fired a grenade at a coffee shop in the northern city of Tripoli on Wednesday, wounding at least eight people, security officials said. The attack took place in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. Shortly ...

From BASSEM MROUE, eTaiwan News,  7 Oct 2009

Shiite financier investments embarrasses Hezbollah

TOURA, Lebanon (AP) -- A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah's reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite militant movement faces calls to bail out small investors to keep its ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Buffalo News,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah leader vows never to recognize Israel

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed on Friday that his Shiite militant group will never recognize Israel and that no Arab state has the right to do so either. Hassan Nasrallah spoke in a televised address to ceremonies marking Quds Day, an ...

From BASSEM MROUE, Taiwan News,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Hassan Nasrallah,  Barack Obama

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