[caption id="attachment_55252494" align="aligncenter" width="4725"] German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during a news conference held with US President Barack Obama (not in the picture) at…

By Tony Badran As Russia unleashed hell on Aleppo last month, it made a mockery of the assertion by US Secretary of State John Kerry, that the ceasefire agreement he had announced days before with…

By Joseph Braude The public discussion over JASTA has evolved — at that, rapidly — in recent weeks, as the hypothetical “veto override” became a reality. In venerated opinion pages such as that of…

[caption id="attachment_55252475" align="aligncenter" width="4976"] NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (C-R) and United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon (C-L)…

[caption id="attachment_55252381" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] UNITED STATES - JANUARY 17: Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and special Middle East…

[caption id="attachment_55252468" align="aligncenter" width="1816"] Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses a crowd during commemorations for Ashura in a southern…

[caption id="attachment_55252455" align="aligncenter" width="4591"] ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 26: Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a Memorial Day event at Arlington…

[caption id="attachment_55252451" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 24: European Union flags are pictured outside the European Commission building on October 24, 2014 in…

[caption id="attachment_55252429" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov on 10 December 2015. ( Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC…

[caption id="attachment_55252418" align="aligncenter" width="621"] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah[/caption] By Hanin Ghaddar U.S. authorities are in the process of preparing a new list of…