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Lebanon

ONLINE Only: The Thin Blue Line
If Lebanon's unprovoked attack on an Israeli maintenance team was premeditated, it points to something darker on the horizon
Michael Weiss

Beirut: Blood on the Streets

‘Then the beating began. One of the new arrivals punched Christopher hard in the face. Two others grabbed his arm and started dragging him across the street. For the first time the Hitch looked scared’

Jonathan Foreman

His Master’s Angry Voice
A disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini's apocalyptic ideology, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is about to turn Iran into a nuclear rogue state
Con Coughlin

‘Obama will try to succeed in the Middle East where Clinton and Bush failed’
Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Future of Unholy War
The story of al-Qaeda's lost leader, Abdullah Azzam, illuminates the murderous nature of global jihad
Shiraz Maher

‘The notion that talking to the enemy avoids war—a position otherwise known as appeasement—is a dangerous fallacy’
Melanie Phillips

ONLINE ONLY: The Great Divide
The deadliest but least understood Middle Eastern faultline is between Sunni and Shia
Lee Smith

‘Obama would be an American, not European, president, and Livni would be an Israeli leader, not a Brussels bureaucrat’
Emanuele Ottolenghi

‘To realise that Syria deserved the cold shoulder did not require the life of a prime minister’

Emanuele Ottolenghi

ONLINE ONLY: Beirut: Blood Holiday
Lebanon's celebration of a brutal killer's release illustrates the extent - and the limitations - of Hizbullah's power
Lee Smith

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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