By Elliot Chodoff and Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | January 21, 2005 It was a busy week of hospitality for Bashar Al-Assad. As visitors from America and China graced the halls of the presidential palace in Damascus, longer-staying guests continued to depend on Assad’s welcome and shelter to make trouble across Syria’s borders. Senator John Kerry, still [...]
Assad’s Glasnost?
May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Syria
Tags: Bashar Assad·China·Hizballah·Iraq·Syria·USA
The Lebanese Test
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Lebanon, Middle East
By Nir Boms and Leon Saltiel FrontPageMagazine.com | September 7, 2006 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan seemed particularly satisfied at the press conference in Brussels when the foreign ministers of the 25 European Union member states committed to contribute more that half of the 15,000 soldiers of the revamped UN force in Lebanon. Apart from [...]