In her recently published memoir   Hard Choices,   former Senator Hillary Clinton recounts the meeting, nine days after the election of 2008, when President-elect Barack Obama first asked her to be his secretary of state. He “presented a well-considered argument,” she writes,...

(Reuters) - With minorities facing death and persecution at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Lebanon's Christians must lay aside their rivalries and agree on who should fill the vacant presidency, a leading Druze politician has warned. Walid Jumblatt, the...

With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group...

Have Hezbollah and Iran clashed with the Syrian regime over their support for Gaza? ( Al Jazeera ) - There   has been some rather bizarre speculation of a rift between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the one hand, and Iran and Hezbollah on the other. The rumours have been...