By Monday, Aug. 11, the fourth day of the Caucasian conflict, which first erupted over the breakaway province of South Ossetia, the pro-American Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili sounded hopeless in the face of overwhelming Russian might. <br/>International condemnation of Russian behavior as "unacceptable and disproportionate" did not ease his country ...</br/>

For Yasser Arafat, suicide attacks in Kibbutz Metzer, at the Karkur Junction or on Jerusalem's Jaffa Street are not enough. In the last few hours, reports have reached <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military and intelligence sources that the three thousands Jordanian special forces and police, after sealing off the southern ...

The heartiness with which British prime minister Tony Blair received Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Methuseleh of the terror business - at the peak of the Western alliance's war on terror - epitomizes the innate PR weakness of that war. In his foreshortened Middle East trip last week, Blair visited Hosni ...

The carving up of the old Soviet Union goes on in line with fresh interests, new pressures and changing alliances. After maintaining a massive presence in the former Soviet republics of the oil-rich Caucasian and Black Sea regions - and sinking $20 billion in projects to remodel their regimes and nurture ...