It's the irony between past and present, between virility and arrogance.  Social media circulated double image of al-Qusair 2006 and Southern Suburb of Beirut 2013.     At the first one you can read the banners of welcoming to the Lebanese refugees who run away from the...

   I am on my knees, hands behind my head, on a border-crossing between Turkey and Syria. A Turkish border guard stoops over me menacingly, the nozzle of his Kalashnikov pressing against my upper thigh as he barks something in an unfamiliar language. What does he want? My...

 Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government's violent crackdown on an environmental protest , a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country's major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of  riot police...

  An Iranian semi-official news agency says Tehran has summoned Qatar’s envoy over an alleged Qatari link to a sabotage and terrorism group .   The Tuesday report by Fars agency says Iran’s Foreign Ministry wished to relay a strong protest to the Arab country ....