As’ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New “War on Terrorism” (2002), and The Battle for Saudi..…
Congress has occasionally invoked the War Powers Act to limit American military commitments—for example, President Ronald Reagan’s deployment of troops to Lebanon in 1983—but more ambiguous interventions, particularly those with a prominent humanitarian dimension like the ones in..…
picture taken from Israeli-occupied Golan Heights shows smoke billowing from Syrian side of the border on June 26, 2017 Embed.. ..…
Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad The and adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the six-year militancy in her country is over vowing that government troops would fight against any illegitimate forces, whether Turkish or American.. Speaking..…
The attacks on Lebanon barracks, total of 300 French and American lives, led to both countries pulling their forces out of Lebanon five months later. ..…
Now the Sunnis are increasingly striking back at Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors in Lebanon. . The Sunni–Shia struggle set in motion by the American invasion of Iraq has become the vortex of a violent political struggle that stretches from South Asia to the Gulf. ..…
IN THE wake of the 1995 Israeli bombing of the UN refugee camp at Qana in Lebanon, a videotape of the massacre was distributed across global media. . The African American poet June Jordan, who had participated in U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movements and would visit Lebanon in..…
The election law imposed by the American occupation was designed, as in Lebanon decades before, to keep power divided in the new state among the three communities: Sunni, Shia and Kurds. . ..…
Muslim Americans align with Democratic Party and voted for Barack Obama in the election. ..…
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