Lebanon and Syria agreed on Thursday to take formal steps to demarcate their borders as part of a string of decisions to normalize their relations for the first time after decades of tension.

Russia’s blitzkrieg in Georgia this week was not simply an act of aggression against a small, weak democracy. It was an assault on vital Western security interests.

over last weekend, Jumblatt quietly signed a “defense cooperation pact” with Hassan Nasrallah

This is a great commercial, made even greater by the fact that the Arab League threatened to boycott Nissan if they didn’t make Israel pull the commercial off the air. What a bunch of drama queens!

Russia has taken South Ossetia now, driving Georgian troops out of their own territory and bringing the western Georgian territory of Abkhazia into the fight.

most of the Jewish community in Gori, an area near the conflict zone, have left for the capital Tbilisi.

In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem halt its military assistance to Georgia, finally threatening a crisis in bilateral relations.

Iranian and Syrian rulers are so pleased with their unforeseen success in outmaneuvering the West that they called an urgent summit for follow-up planning.

The deal was approved a month before the German chancellor’s March stood up in the Knesset, promised to push for further sanctions against Iran and declared that Israel’s security was “nonnegotiable.”

Why say the obvious? Because Israel provided nothing but the backdrop for an expedient publicity stunt, Israel hardly deserved anything more original than regurgitated slogans.

Both at home and abroad, Britain has lost any shared understanding of the threats that must be faced and how to do so. Indeed, with its steady loss of the power of self-governance to the European Union, there is no longer any clear idea of where political responsibility lies.

Iranian authorities have begun construction of a secret nuclear reactor in the Al-Zarqan region close to the city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran, on the Iran-Iraq border.