TIME: We wanted to ask you first about this morning’s news about your climate summit in December. You’ve invited a hundred world leaders to Paris. But not President Trump. Does this mean that your plan to convince him to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change is not going that w...
What is the way ahead in Lebanon and Syria?Dieter Farwick
“For the first time, I declare my position regarding what is happening in Syria: Bashar Al-Assad is a delinquent, a criminal and a child-killer… The regime of Assad is the most criminal and backward regime of the Arab world. Shame on anyone who continues to remain silent. Every moment...
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria - unprecedented poverty prevails this time. The Arab world hasn't witnessed such widespread deprivation in recent memory, with empty pockets reflecting the intensified and ongoing poverty that has gripped these four countries over the past two years. ...
The militant group Hezbollah was formed in 1982 as a Shiite Muslim political and military force, with the support of Iran and Syria, after an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It functions within the Lebanese government as a political party, but also outside of it, providing services to its Shiite...
aThe party emphasized its 'national' character (as opposed to international) in both Syria and Lebanon. 党强调了它的‘全国’字符(与国际相对)在叙利亚和黎巴嫩。[translate] a你喜欢这些漂亮的女孩子吗 You like these attractive girls[translate] ...
What is the Golan Heights? The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau that Israeli seized from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967, before formally annexing it in 1981. The hilly landscape, which spans some 500 square miles, also shares a border with Jorda...
While Israel’s seizure of the Golan led to an exodus of many Syrians living there, about 20,000 members of the Druze community still live there. The Druze are an Arab and Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious community that resides in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. ...
It is frequently mentioned in the works of the Greek poet Homer and in the Old Testament; and it was ruled in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids of Syria, the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, and the Romans. At that time Sidon was famous forits purple ...
Lebanon’s government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for thehuge blastthat rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city. What is this chemical, and why did it explode?