NDTV (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A pro-government rights outfit has urged Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to consider declaring a state of emergency to stem a tide of post-election p
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Lebanon's government has backed down in its stand-off with Hizbollah militants, cancelling measures that angered the Syria and Iran-backed movement and triggered the worst internal conflict since the country's civil war.
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: After six days of fighting between government loyalists and Hizballah leave close to a 100 dead and 200 wounded, the Lebanese army's demand that all combatants lay down their arms will go unheeded until the Shiite terrorists decide they have achieved their goals. Hizballah is now focusing on the northern Tripoli region and the central mountains east of Beirut...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Source: Reuters (Updates with resumption of broadcasting, details, quotes) By Yara Bayoumy BEIRUT, May 13 (Reuters) - The pro-government Future TV station, forced off the air by opposition gunmen last week, ...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
From the DEBKAfile: DEBKAfile’s military sources report: After six days of fighting between government loyalists and Hizballah leave close to a 100 dead and 200 wounded, the Lebanese army's demand that all combatants lay down their arms will go unheeded until the Shiite terrorists decide they have achieved their goals. Hizballah is now focusing on the northern [...]
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Source: Reuters BEIRUT, May 13 (Reuters) - The pro-government Future TV station, forced off the air by opposition gunmen last week, will resume broadcasting on Tuesday, the station's head said. Future TV ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
A fresh bout of heavy fighting between Hizbullah and pro-government forces began in the north of Lebanon today as rival leaders prepared for talks with Arab league mediators to try to end internal fighting that has killed at 46 in less than a week
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Monday, May 12, 2008 : "This is very much similar to what is happening in Sudan, in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and Somalia, [where] the United States is basically instigating and funding civil wars," says professor As`ad Abu Khalil.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Source: Reuters May 12 (Reuters) - Clashes resumed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday in fighting between Hezbollah and its pro-government opponents. The drive by Hezbollah to take control of strategic ...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by the increasingly fraught climate for the press in Rwanda, in particular, the expulsion of three newspaper editors from a 2 May ceremony marking World Press Freedom Day on the orders of the new information minister, Louise Mushikiwabo.“Nowhere else in Africa does a government display this degree of contempt and aggressiveness towards journalists,”...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
VIDEO - Heavy fighting broke out between pro- and anti-government supporters in central mountains overlooking the capital Sunday sending echoes of gunfire and explosions rolling across Beirut, security officials said. Israeli ConcernsRamon: Lebanon – a Hizbullah state / Roni Sofer(Video) Military Intelligence chief briefs government ministers on latest developments on northern border,...
Global Features (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... success during the July 2006 war with Israel. Hezbollah-led opposition forces quickly overpowered pro-government militias and took over large parts of the capital city of Beirut before handing over control to the Lebanese army. The fighting shifted to the north and east of the country over the weekend and fresh clashes were reported in Beirut on May 12th. Between May 7th and May 11th, armed...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Video: Hezbullah shuts down pro-government TV There is officially a war on in Lebanon. At least eleven people have been killed in fighting today as Hezbullah and its allies in Amal have gained control of some neighborhoods in Beirut. Among other things, Hezbullah and its allies have succeeded in shutting down the pro-government Future TV network. Let's go to the videotape to see that,...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
From the DEBKAfile: At least 11 people were killed Friday, May 9, Day 3 of fierce clashes between Hizballah and pro-government forces, the worst since the 1975-90 civil war. At noon, Syrian Social Nationalist Party's units entered Beirut to support Hizballah’s advancing occupation of Sunni West Beirut districts. DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Thursday night, army [...]
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Pro-Hezbollah gunmen have circled Future TV studios in west Beirut on Friday, threatening to storm the building. Clashes between supporters of the government and Hezbollah have rocked the Lebanese capital in the last three days.
