Some Lebanese officials are reportedly exerting efforts to hand over the data of a Geological Survey for the country’s offshore gas …

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon: A brief sit-in was held Wednesday in support of a detained nurse from al-Youssef Hospital and a receptionist from …

by Paul McGeough Washington: We knew before Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the US Congress, that he would have nothing new to say – after more than 20 years the Israeli prime minister has wheeled out every argument there is against a nuclear Iran.

"The fact is that the US doesn't need Israel," says one observer 

So, why this visceral sense that the Middle East is careering towards a point of no return? Maybe because that is the kind of wild trajectory the region is on.

The Middle East is catching up with its last century – the 2015 of Obama and Netanyahu is not the 1916 of Sykes and Picot; the 1948 of the founding of Israel, the 1967 of the Six-Day War, the 1973 of the world oil shock or the 1979 of the Islamic Revolution.

Washington's place in the world – and in the region – is very different. The Cold War is gone and the grind of nuclear tension with Moscow is so yesterday. Obama wants to pivot to Asia.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The United States as we have known it is no more; the religion of the Americans is continues to alter from year to year.For the first time ever, only 47 percent of the United States identifies as Protestant. And a startling one in five claim to be religiously unaffiliated.

"The unprecedented drop in Protestantism is down to dwindling figures of young people in churches, and a surge in white Christians becoming unaffiliated with religion," according to the Public Religion Research Institute