Middle East

During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction. Similar constraints have no doubt prevented their use...

========== For Immediate Release Office of the White House Press Secretary August 7, 2006 Crawford, Texas 8:59 A.M. CDT www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060807.html THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Since the crisis in Lebanon began more than three weeks ago, the United...

Israel will not agree to a cease-fire in Lebanon until Hezbollah is completely disarmed and no longer can operate as a militia force, top Israeli officials said today. Their statements upped the ante in the...

Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Steve Hadley Crawford Middle School Crawford, Texas 9:00 A.M. CDT www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060806.html MR. HADLEY: Good morning. I'd be glad to answer any questions you folks have. Q Steve, how are you going...

So what exactly is our story with the bombs and civilians injuries? Are we the most evil element in the world, as the Evil and Stupidity Front claims, from Professor Noam Chomsky and Jose...

========================== Full text of UNSC draft resolution on Mideast cease-fire Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST August 5, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525811296&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Text of draft Security Council resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah: The Security Council, PP1. Recalling all...

On August 3rd, the authoritative Middle East News Line confirmed that Iran acknowledged the supply of long-range missiles to Hizbullah. A senior Iranian official, Hujjat Mokhtashemi-Pour, said Hizbullah has obtained the Zelzal-2, which he...

Hizballah officially declared an open-ended war on the United States last night during a formal pre-recorded speech of its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, who said Israel was little more than a pawn in the...

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thanks for joining us. We're getting reports that the United States hopes to have a deal on a U.N. resolution ending the Middle East violence and that deal should come through...

On Tuesday, August 1st, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a statement to the AP that he would continue his planned policy to extricate Jewish communities from Judea and Samaria and also work towards establishing...