Therefore, it is feared in Washington and Jerusalem that, while plotting revenge on Israel, Hizballah, backed by the Syrian commando units, will launch attacks on Lebanese national intelligence and Druze targets in Beirut and Mt. Lebanon – they point a finger at Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Their immediate goal would be to overthrow the pro-Western, [...]

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Tensions are growing in Lebanon over the possibility of renewed fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Bracing itself for the likelihood of Hezbollah retaliation for the assassination of terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyah in Damascus last week, Israel on Monday deployed Patriot air defense missiles near Haifa.
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Israel deploys Patriot missiles due to [...]

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North Korea helped Syria build an underground nuclear reactor in the Middle East country, a South Korean news report said Monday.
“The U.S. government has circumstantial (evidence) that the North provided technology assistance to build an underground reactor in Syria,” South Korea’s Hankook Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified diplomatic channel.
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The idea of a major land war similar in scale to the great battles of World War II, or even the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War has largely been discounted by political pundits in the United States and by current and co would-be policymakers in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
However, it is striking that none of [...]

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The foreign policy establishment and the American media have been preoccupied in recent years with conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, disarmament talks with North Korea, and Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It has largely overlooked how Russia’s behavior has changed, both in its internal politics and its external relations, since Putin has consolidated power. It is [...]

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But that is another story.
The point is that China’s rise is a great challenge for the world, especially the US, as the former has ambitions to overtake the latter as the world’s only superpower.
With the US mired in Iraq and elsewhere, China has used its time and resources well to expand its political and [...]

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On the surface, Iran and Russia share many common goals, not the least of which is squeezing the United States as far as possible out of exploiting the developing energy reserves of the Caspian. Amid the West’s hand-wringing over Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor, it is Russian technicians who are finishing the facility and Russian companies [...]

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday predicted Hezbollah would destroy Israel, in a new verbal onslaught against the Jewish state after the murder of a top commander of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group.
“In the near future, we will witness the destruction of Israel, the aggressor, this cancerous microbe Israel, at the able hands of the soldiers of [...]

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American flags flutter almost everywhere in Kosovo, a symbol of how — through successive Democratic and Republican administrations — the U.S. has long been a friend of this nation in the making.
But Washington’s stalwart support of statehood in recent months in the face of fierce resistance from Russia has raised the stakes in its increasingly [...]

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