UPI International Intelligence articles from August 2006

UPI International Intelligence archives from August 2006

Analysis: What is Hezbollah?
August 1, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- What exactly is Hezbollah? Is it a political party? Is it a militia? Is it a charitable organization? Is it a heroic national resistance group? Or is it a dreaded terrorist organization?...

Review of the Arab press.
August 1, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 1: Lebanon's al-Balad said in a commentary Tuesday it was difficult to say the second Qana massacre in southern Lebanon will be a turning point for the Israel-Hezbollah war because...

Analysis: Olmert says 'no cease-fire'.
August 1, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Israel reduced the number of air attacks in Lebanon Monday to allow tens of thousands of Lebanese to leave southern battle zones in the south for safer havens, but Prime Minister...

Analysis: Israel in race to complete task.
August 1, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Thousands of Israeli infantry, tank, and combat engineering men backed by aircraft and artillery Tuesday pushed into southern Lebanon to rid the border area of entrenched...

Outside View: The missing link.
August 1, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- There is no doubt of the urgency in negotiating a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon. But, as the international debate moves into higher gear, the question is not whether a cease-fire...

Outside View: Weapons for Venezuela.
August 1, 2006... Byline: VIKTOR LITOVKIN MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Russia was a boon for the Russian defense industry. Venezuela has a $52 million agreement with Russia for the supply of 100,000 Kalashnikov...

Commentary: U.S.-Iran proxy war.
August 2, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- What a difference one week can make! Almost from one day to the next, moderate Arab governments reluctantly switched sides -- from deploring to applauding Hezbollah's "heroic"...

Analysis: EU turns up heat on Israel, U.S.
August 2, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The European Union's call for an immediate end to hostilities in the Middle East raises questions over how long Israel can stave off international pressure to end its three-week offensive...

Review of the Arab press.
August 2, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 2: Arab newspapers continued to comment on the Israeli war on Lebanon as it entered its 22nd day Wednesday, with Lebanon's as-Safir describing it as an "Israeli war, with an...

Outside View: The Qana massacre 2.
August 2, 2006... Byline: VLADIMIR SIMONOV MOSCOW, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The Lebanese town of Qana, about six miles east of Tyre, has been fated to witness horrible tragedies on a more or less regular basis. Ten years ago the Qana massacre took place. This...

Analysis: Blair's global war of values.
August 2, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a complete reappraisal of foreign policy to tackle an "arc of extremism" stretching across the Middle East and beyond, a phenomenon he says...

Analysis' Israel steps up fire.
August 2, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Fighting across the Israeli-Lebanese border escalated with a vengeance by mid-week, as more soldiers battled Hezbollah and the Lebanese militiamen set a new record in the number...

Analysis: Lebanon war, phase two.
August 3, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Judging by the latest military developments in Lebanon it would appear that Israel's war on Hezbollah has entered a new phase, shattering all hopes of the war-wary Lebanese population of...

Analysis: Eastern Europe ready for euro?
August 3, 2006... Byline: ROBIN SHEPHERD BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- An old Chinese proverb has it that we should be careful what we wish for. As the European Union's new accession countries from the former communist world scramble to drop their...

Walker's World: Are Poles out of EU step?
August 3, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The clash of values between the new Polish government and the liberal elites who have long dominated the social policies of the European Union is becoming serious. An EU spokesman Wednesday...

Review of the Arab press.
August 3, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 3: Jordan's King Abdullah told two Jordanian dailies Thursday that Israel should realize that if the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah is destroyed, other resistance groups...

Analysis: Israel and the Middle East.
August 3, 2006... Byline: JOCELYN HANAMIRIAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon is just one front in a battle against the establishment of a Shiite hegemony and Arab control of the Middle East, Israeli Vice Prime Minister...

Analysis: Blair rejects Israel bias.
August 3, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair lent his backing Thursday to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's seven point plan for resolving the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. It...

Outside View: Ukraine, revenge of the East.
August 3, 2006... Byline: TATYANA STANOVAYA WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- After hours of consultations, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko made a decision last night to submit the candidacy of Viktor Yanukovych for the post of prime minister. In...

Politics & Policies: Both sides must 'win'.
August 4, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Every Middle East war that was started with the intention of reducing, or even eradicating, terrorism resulted instead in an increase of terrorist activities. A study of terrorist...

Outside View: The Kodori conflict.
August 4, 2006... Byline: ALEXEI MAKARKIN MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Last week saw the escalation of the conflict in the Kodori Gorge. The Georgian armed forces entered the territory, which was made off limits to them under a 1994 agreement establishing the...

AnaIysis: Israeli army eyes Litani River.
August 4, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Thursday instructed the army to prepare a quick occupation of all of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, and to "paralyze" areas where...

Analysis: Bush, Blair must face Iraq truth.
August 4, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Admissions by senior British diplomats and U.S. Army generals that Iraq is currently hurtling towards civil war shatters the rosy picture their respective leaders are trying to paint. ...

Policy Watch: Bush at 'High Noon'.
August 4, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A few days ago, I watched once again the Western classic "High Noon," starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. I'd seen it on previous occasions, but what struck me now is how the story in...

Analysis: Claiming victory in Mideast war.
August 5, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Who would have known the Israeli-Lebanese war, now well into its fourth week, would last this long? Very few would have bet their money on such a long war between a well-organized...

Analysis: Hezbollah's Arab popularity.
August 6, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council draft resolution for a Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire, if passed without meeting some Lebanese demands, is bound to mean continued fighting. And continued warfare...

Analysis: Phase III - 'War of Destruction'.
August 7, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Israel's war on Hezbollah has now entered phase III, or what could be called the final phase: to cause maximum damage before the U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cessation...

Analysis: Ad hoc warfare.
August 7, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- After almost four weeks of Israeli bombing, one quarter of Lebanon's population has heeded Israeli leaflets and fled towns and villages that Hezbollah rocket teams were using for...

Commentary: Ad hoc warfare.
August 7, 2006... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- After almost four weeks of Israeli bombing, one quarter of Lebanon's population has heeded Israeli leaflets and fled towns and villages that Hezbollah rocket teams were using for...

Review of the Arab press.
August 7, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 7: Lebanon's as-Safir commented Monday the Security Council's draft cease-fire resolution contains Israeli conditions for Lebanon to surrender, saying it was an Israeli attempt to...

Walker's World: New check on nuke power.
August 7, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- As former Vice President Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and scorching summer temperatures in Europe and North America spread new alarm about global warming, nuclear power was beginning...

Outside View: Saudi and the war in Lebanon.
August 7, 2006... Byline: NAWAF OBAID RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- After over a decade of bloody conflict, the late Saudi King Fahd organized the Taif Accords in 1989, which ended the civil war in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia then went on to finance much...

Atlantic Eye: Constitutional constipation.
August 7, 2006... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Months after the general elections, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine are in various stages of governing, which may be summed up as: embarrassment, some good news...

Outside View: Cuba to suffer after Fidel.
August 7, 2006... Byline: PYOTR ROMANOV MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Cuba is in for some major changes soon. Its octogenarian ruler, Fidel Castro, and his younger brother Raul, the number two man in the Cuban Council of State, cannot withstand change, and there...

Analysis: Israel for tough U.N. stance.
August 7, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The Israeli military is planning to escalate its strikes in Lebanon, partly to stop the barrage of Hezbollah rocket attacks but also to increase Israel's leverage as the international...

Outside View: The case for engaging Syria.
August 8, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- In my last weekly article "The Missing Link," I argued for the need to engage Syria in any future negotiations that may lead to a sustainable cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon. Since the...

Outside View: Lebanon's sectarian aftershocks.
August 8, 2006... Byline: FRED WEHREY AND DALIA DASSA KAYE WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- In the volatile Middle East, America's efforts to build friendships have often created new enemies. Many of the divided religious and ethnic factions living in the...

Outside View: Ukraine politics in flux.
August 8, 2006... Byline: VYACHESLAV IGRUNOV MOSCOW, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The political crisis in Ukraine has been resolved, but uncertainty persists. The new government is still suffering from the painful compromise that brought about its establishment. ...

Analysis: The real Mideast war.
August 8, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- At first glance it may seem as though Israel is fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon, but don't let appearances mislead you. There is much more than meets the eye in this "War of Destruction."...

Analysis: Blair's fate lies in Lebanon.
August 8, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair's position on the current conflict in the Middle East has left him isolated from much of his own administration and the Labor Party. At a time when he is...

Analysis: Israel weighs next move in war.
August 9, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Israel's inner Political-Security Cabinet is scheduled Wednesday to consider army plans to occupy southern Lebanon in order to stop the barrage of Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli...

Review of the Arab press.
August 9, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 9: Lebanon's an-Nahar commented Wednesday that while all parties agree on the need to resolve the root problems of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict before a ceasefire is issued, they...

Analysis: Cult of Kim trumps N.Korea floods.
August 9, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- At a time when the North Korean people are suffering from heavy flood damages, their "Dear Leader" has vanished from public view with no reports on his visits to any devastated areas. ...

Analysis: Terror curbs freedom in U.K.?
August 9, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- British Home Secretary John Reid Wednesday reignited the debate over the balance between civil liberties and security, insisting that traditional concepts of individual rights and freedom...

Outside View: Is the CIS getting divorced?
August 9, 2006... Byline: PYOTR GONCHAROV MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The Commonwealth of Independent States is undergoing several processes, but essentially they boil down to a regulated disintegration of a once enormous country. December 8, 1991 was not...

Analysis: Israel ready for push in Lebanon.
August 9, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Israel's inner Political-Security Cabinet approved the army's plan to go deeper into southern Lebanon but allowed time for more diplomatic moves to try and resolve the crisis before...

Review of the Arab press.
August 10, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 10: Lebanon's al-Anwar commented Thursday that Israel's war on Lebanon entered its fifth week with more complications for Lebanon as the war expands and the diplomatic battle...

Walker's World: Flawed Lebanon consensus.
August 10, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PERIGUEUX, France, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- There is growing consensus in Europe and the Middle East that the indecisive carnage in Lebanon has resulted in a strategic weakening of Israel and also by extension of its...

Analysis: The storm before the calm.
August 10, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- In allowing the war in Lebanon to go on for as long as it did President George W. Bush may have contributed to the problem rather than the solution. Bush chose to allow hostilities to...

Analysis: Thwarted plot still rocks world.
August 10, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- While the alleged terrorist plot to blow up airliners en route from Britain to the United States may have been thwarted, those behind it remain able to claim some significant successes....

Analysis: U.N. force in Lebanon? Yes, but.
August 11, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- One of the stumbling blocks United Nations negotiators are facing as they draw up the draft resolution aimed at stopping the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is the kind of force to...

Outside View: RPG-29 to blame in Lebanon?
August 11, 2006... Byline: VIKTOR LITOVKIN MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Hezbollah was using modern anti-tank weapons of Russian make, specifically the RPG-29 Vampirs with a...

Analysis: Seoul to resume aid to North.
August 11, 2006... Byline: JONG-HEON LEE SEOUL, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- South Korea Friday decided to provide more than $20 million of relief aid and much-needed rice to flood-ravaged North Korea hoping the humanitarian measure would break the deadlock in...

Analysis: U.K. doubts over terror plot.
August 11, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The deep skepticism with which many Britons have responded to the news of an alleged plot to blow up airliners en route to the United States highlights an endemic lack of trust in the...

Analysis: The last Mideast war?
August 12, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Could Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah have been right in his prediction last month that Israel's war on Lebanon will be Israel's last? In an unpredictable Middle East, it...

Analysis: Peace after war.
August 13, 2006... Byline: SANA ABDALLAH AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- As the Israeli-Lebanese war appears to come to a close after 33 days of fighting, it might not be a closure if the Arabs don't play their cards right to use lessons learned and...

Policy Watch: Putin and Ahmadinejad.
August 13, 2006... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the June 2005 election of the staunchly anti-American Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Ahmadinejad, though, has proven to be a difficult...

Analysis: Lebanon -- heroes and villains.
August 14, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted in favor of Resolution 1701 calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah but left a cluster of...

Walker's World: Two credibility gaps.
August 14, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PERIGUEUX, France, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- We live in cynical and suspicious times. Within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks, the false tale was circulating that Jews had been warned to stay away from the World Trade Center...

Review of the Arab press.
August 14, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 14: Lebanon's as-Safir said in a commentary Monday that Resolution 1701 is the vaguest decision in the history of the U.N. Security Council, describing it as a temporary truce in...

Common Ground: Media and Muslim dialogue.
August 14, 2006... Byline: EKO MARYADI JAKARTA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The fluctuating relations between the Muslim and Western worlds are now seemingly more difficult, especially since the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City on September 11, 2001,...

Analysis: Germany's anti-terror debate.
August 14, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The investigation surrounding the foiled terror plan to blow up ten commercial aircraft departing the United Kingdom is likely to expand into mainland Europe as British terror plotters had...

Analysis: Anti-tank rockets menace Israelis.
August 14, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT HAIFA, Israel, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- One can easily distinguish between soldiers and civilians lying in Haifa's Rambam Hospital. The pajamas are the same and age is not necessarily an indication since the soldiers...

Analysis: Israelis criticize army, govt.
August 15, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- As a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect Monday morning -- and seemed to hold -- Israelis are turning to a critical examination of their government's decisions and...

Outside View: Israel's punishment.
August 15, 2006... Byline: HRH PRINCE HASSAN BIN TALAL AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- How much aggression in our region has been justified by the mantra that Western interests are under threat? The battle cries claim that all is at stake and every strike is...

Analysis: What comes after 1701?
August 15, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- It was a far from perfect resolution, but it got the job done: it stopped the bloodshed. After 31 days of relentless pounding by Israeli artillery, naval gunboats and warplanes on...

Review of the Arab press.
August 15, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 15: Lebanon's an-Nahar said in a commentary Tuesday the first day after the cease-fire between Israel and the Shiite Hezbollah guerilla group is the beginning of counting the...

Outside View: Islands in Arabia.
August 15, 2006... Byline: PATRICK MCGREEVY BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Sitting on my balcony staring down at the Sea Gate of the American University of Beirut, and to the Mediterranean beyond, I am in no danger. The bombs are in the distance. The...

Analysis: Returning refugees clog arteries.
August 15, 2006... Byline: SAMAR KADI AND CLAUDE SALHANI BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- No sooner had Israel's guns and Hezbollah's rockets fallen silent in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 than the Lebanese government was...

Analysis: U.K. debates roots of extremism.
August 15, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- As Britain reels from the discovery of an alleged plot to blow up airliners en route to the United States, ministers and senior Muslim figures are at odds over how best to combat the...

Analysis: German economic future uncertain.
August 15, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The German economy in the past two months grew by its fastest rate in five years -- a real turnaround or just a seasonal upswing? The question is not an easy one to answer, as it has been...

Outside View: The war of perception.
August 15, 2006... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Regardless of how and when the guns fall silent, Israel has lost the war of perception. No matter how many Hezbollah fighters were killed, or how many Katushka rockets destroyed, or how...

Analysis: Cease-fire terms irks Israelis.
August 16, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Convoys of army trucks carrying explosives and Humvees with mounted machine guns traveled away from Israel's border with Lebanon as a stream of private cars, taxis and vans...

Review of the Arab press.
August 16, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 16: Lebanon's as-Safir commented Wednesday that it wished Syrian President Bashar Assad had praised the Lebanese resistance and the steadfastness and unity of the Lebanese people...

Analysis: Germany may send Mideast troops.
August 16, 2006... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Germany's government leaders Monday signaled they may be ready to dispatch German soldiers to aid the United Nations peacekeeping force along Lebanon's border with Israel. But critics counter...

Analysis: Profiling sparks U.K. race row.
August 16, 2006... Byline: HANNAH K. STRANGE LONDON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The race row prompted by a British proposal to introduce ethnic passenger profiling at airports to root out potential terrorists foreshadows the community divisions that will result from...

U.N. condemns killings of media in Iraq.
August 16, 2006... UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A U.N. official condemned killing of journalists in Iraq, calling for efforts to "counter the alarming campaign against freedom of the press in the country." In a statement made Wednesday, Koichiro...

Analysis: Bolstered Lebanon force in weeks.
August 16, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- It could take up to two weeks for a stable contingent of 3,000 to 3,500 troops to beef up the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, enabling it to carry out its new mandate to monitor...

Analysis: Two roads from Damascus.
August 16, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad is at a political crossroad. For the moment he is basking in the glory of Hezbollah's victory in a month-long war the Shiite militia fought with Israel....

Walker's World: India's scientists revolt.
August 17, 2006... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The long-simmering revolt by India's top nuclear scientists against the controversial nuclear deal with the United States now threatens to sink the landmark agreement signed last year between...

Review of the Arab press.
August 17, 2006... AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for Aug. 17: Lebanon's al-Anwar said in a commentary Thursday the Lebanese army heads to southern Lebanon today with a victory and pride for the army's leadership. The paper, which...

Analysis: Israel positive on Lebanon res.
August 17, 2006... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who came to U.N. World Headquarters this week to discuss the Security Council's latest Lebanon resolution with Secretary-General Kofi Annan,...

Analysis: Assad on the warpath.
August 18, 2006... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The usually timid Syrian president emerged from his customary reserve with an unprecedented speech filled with furor, bravado and threats aimed at his Lebanese opponents, Israel and the...

Analysis: 'So who won the war?'.
August 18, 2006... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- TV footage showing Lebanese armored personnel carriers landing in Tyre and soldiers in camouflage uniforms moving south suggested that perhaps some good might yet emerge from the month...