The United Nations secretary general is supposed to answer to every nation on earth — and no nation at all. So the unusually frank admission by the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday that he had essentially been coerced into removing a Saudi-led military coalition […]
A few days ago, the Daily Mail opened one of their articles with these words: “The Swiss have put on one of the most bizarre opening ceremonies in history to mark the completion of the world’s longest tunnel.”[1] Other media outlets said similar things.[2] The […]
The head of the state-owned telecommunications company Ogero and two other officials testified Thursday as witnesses in investigations into country’s the unlicensed Internet case. A source told The Daily Star that Mount Lebanon’s Investigative Judge Rami Abdallah questioned Abdel-Moneim Youssef along with Ogero’s IT director […]
Mount Lebanon’s Accusatory Body Thursday rejected a decision to release former MP Hasan Yaacoub on bail, who is accused of being involved in the kidnapping of Hannibal Gadhafi. A source told The Daily Star that the head of the body Judge Elias Eid cancelled a […]
Fighters aligned with Libya’s United Nations-backed unity government are advancing along the Mediterranean coast toward the Islamic State stronghold of Surt, signaling the first major assault on territory that, since last year, has become the terrorist group’s largest base outside of Iraq and Syria. Two […]
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria is trying to strangle it by cutting off a key supply route from Turkey. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led alliance, has just launched an offensive to capture the strategic northern town of Manbij with […]
When Francis Fukuyanna declared the “End of History” at the turn of the century, he certainly overlooked the Middle East, where history has had a future – and a bright one indeed. At the beginning of the 20th century, nationalism made headway in the Middle […]
Along the battle line north of Falluja, small units of Shiite fighters are raining mortar shells and rockets down on the city and its Islamic State occupiers. Militia graffiti is scrawled in red paint along a network of low walls cratered by bullets and bombs, […]
Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat I. Introduction 1. In adopting its resolution 2253 (2015) on 17 December 2015, […]
Kurdish-led forces are attacking militant positions north of the Islamic State’s de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria. The Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi explains how the fall of Raqqa could incite sectarian tensions.
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