Tag: regional war

Yesterday was a picnic in the Middle East in contrast to the situation today: Israeli forces struck Beirut’s international airport for the second time Thursday, hitting fuel tanks that exploded into fireballs. The attack came soon after two rockets struck the northern Israeli port of Haifa on a day of spiraling violence and deepening crisis. […]

With the death of Zarqawi brings a new and interesting question – could we have helped out al Qaeda? To help you understand this line of thinking, let’s go back in the near past (h/t to Think Progress on this one): Jordanian-born al Qaeda militant Abu Musab Zarqawi has been replaced as head of the […]