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Hariri fails to form a government while Lebanon is facing total collapse ANI | Updated: Jul 19, 2021 10:13 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], July 19 (ANI): Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, who was tasked with forming a government in the country last October, after presenting on Wednesday his proposed cabinet to President Michel Aoun-which Aoun rejected once again for the 19th time in a row-announced that he was abandoning the whole effort, exclaiming: "God help the country". Now Lebanon, which is on the throes of a social explosion and i...

Turkey's offer to secure Kabul airport could prove to be a very risky business ANI | Updated: Jul 12, 2021 09:07 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], July 12 (ANI): The proposal made by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to US President Joe Biden last month on the sidelines of a NATO summit that Turkey could undertake the security of the Hamid KarzaiInternational Airport in Kabul after NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan could be a bargaining chip for improving Ankara's relationship with Washington but given the resurgence of the Taliban it could tur...

Nicosia [Cyprus], June 14 (ANI): Following the US policy shift to disengage from the Middle East region, which started under President Barack Obama and continued and accelerated under Donald Trump, China stepped in to fill the vacuum created and now plays a wider role in the region. China's growing influence in the Middle East is a real challenge to US dominance in the region.

Nicosia [Cyprus], June 7 (ANI): A few minutes before his mandate to form a government expired last Wednesday, Yair Lapid, the leader of Yesh Atid party, informed President Reuven Rivlin that he managed to cobble together a coalition government.

Cease-fire allows both Netanyahu and Hamas to declare a victory of sorts ANI | Updated: May 24, 2021 09:00 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus] May 24 (ANI): Both Israel and Hamas have claimed success after the cease-fire in the 11-day conflict between them that left behind 243 Palestinians and 12 Israelis dead, as well as scores of wounded on both sides. But despite the cease-fire, the core issues of the conflict remain unresolved and another cycle of violence could start once again in East Jerusalem. The question arises: So many people lost their lives...