<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Formerly Bitter Enemies Become Promoters of Peace]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8062-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8062-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  No formal truth commissions were set up in Lebanon to help Muslims and Christians overcome the religious phobias and feelings of vengeance that ripped the country apart for 17 years.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S., Allies Upset by Delay of U.N. Report]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3099-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3099-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In a new spat with the U.N. leadership, the United States, France and Britain have expressed alarm at a decision by Secretary General Kofi Annan to delay a final report on whether Syria is fully complying with a Security Council resolution calling for its withdrawal from Lebanon, according to U.S. officials and Western diplomats.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Power Rises Across Mideast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58609-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58609-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Advocates for democracy in Arab world begin to see results after years of attacking the rigid underpinnings of their societies without much success.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson and Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of Iran's Troops in Lebanon Are Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47873-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47873-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vast majority of Revolutionary Guards pulled after two decades as a major player among the country's Shiite population, most notably as the impetus for the creation of Hezbollah.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria Moves to Keep Control of Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14196-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14196-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Syria is covertly working to continue to dominate its smaller neighbor, in defiance of a U.N. resolution demanding an end to Syria's 29-year control over Lebanon, according to U.S., European and U.N. officials, and Lebanon's opposition.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria: Troop Pullout to Precede Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10644-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10644-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Syria's government told the United Nations on Tuesday that it would withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon before Lebanese parliamentary elections this spring.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch and Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Probes Syria's Future Over Concerns]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2028-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2028-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is reaching out to the Syrian opposition because of growing concerns that unrest in Lebanon could spill over and suddenly destabilize Syria, which borders countries pivotal to U.S. Middle East policy.]]></description><author> Robin Wright  and Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria Is Blamed for Tone Preceding Hariri Slaying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64458-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64458-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar Assad contributed to a climate of violence by threatening former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri with "physical harm" if Hariri challenged Assad's dominance in Lebanon, according to U.N. testimony.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson for Mideast Pundits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58520-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58520-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   When a group of scholars, researchers and journalists met last December at a spot on the Dead Sea in Jordan to discuss the Middle East, they diagnosed why the region's many authoritarian governments faced so little popular resistance: deficient demand for democracy.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annan Demands Full Syrian Withdrawal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42845-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid 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Secretary General Kofi Annan expects Syria to withdraw all of its 20,000 troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon before the country holds parliamentary elections this spring.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching Unity in Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45543-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45543-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Without intervention from its neighbors, Lebanon could thrive in peace as a united nation, said    Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir , the spiritual leader of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic community.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanese Wipe Out Dominant Images]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36813-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36813-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Swept up in what they believe is a historic moment for their country, many in Beirut have begun actively hounding the Syrians and the symbols of their influence from their city.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shiites May Be U.S. Asset in Mideast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38296-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38296-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a striking shift from the U.S. encounter with Shiite activism in 1979, the United States is moving on several fronts to support, recognize or hold out the prospect of engagement with Islam's increasingly powerful minority.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beirut Rallies Reflect Great Divide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33010-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33010-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese rallied to mark the one-month anniversary of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri's assassination and to intensify pressure on Syria to immediately withdraw its troops.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria Promises to Leave Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29389-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29389-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Syria promised to pull one-third of its 15,000 troops by the end of March as the first stage of an operation that would end its 29-year military presence in Lebanon.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the Mideast Bloom?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28948-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28948-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DUBAI, United Arab Emirates<br> Listen to the conversations in the cafes on the edge of the creek that runs through this Persian Gulf city, and it is hard to believe that the George W. Bush being praised by Arab diners is the same George W. Bush who has been widely excoriated in these parts...]]></description><author> Youssef M. Ibrahim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy to Present Syria With Ultimatum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25429-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25429-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A top U.N. envoy will tell President Bashar Assad on Friday that Syria will face political and economic isolation if he does not completely and quickly withdraw from Lebanon, according to U.N. and U.S. officials.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Syrian Lebanese Premier Reappointed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22731-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22731-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Only 10 days after the Lebanese opposition celebrated his resignation, the pro-Syrian legislator Omar Karami returned as prime minister Thursday in a sign of how swiftly the political winds have shifted during the recent weeks of street protests.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomat Rejects Bush's Views on Mideast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21599-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21599-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Wednesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal of President Bush's argument that the Middle East is opening to an era of democracy stimulated by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massive Pro-Syrian Protest Held in Beirut]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16165-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16165-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/lebanon/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands celebrated Syria's military presence in Lebanon Tuesday, as the leader of Hezbollah warned the U.S. not to upset the country's volatile political system.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item></channel></rss>