A shot in the arm for final status
Arafat hopes that restoring Palestinian unity will strengthen his position in negotiations with Israel, while Damascus-based opposition groups feel the need to change their strategy amid expectations that talks will resume soon between Syria and Israel, writes Khaled Dawoud
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Hizbullah hits back
Lebanese officials blame Israel for the killing of a high-ranking Hizbullah official. Retribution followed, Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut
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Arafat returns
to Lebanon
Recent months have witnessed the reappearance of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in Ain Helweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Is this good or bad news for Palestinian refugees? Graham Usher went to Ain Helweh to find out
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Due process, anyone?
The torture and the conviction last week of a German citizen for alleged Hizbullah membership by an Israeli court in Tel Aviv should have surprised no one, writes Dominic Coldwell
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Paying in blood and tears
With US air raids in Iraq killing civilians at full throttle, Salah Hemeid wonders how long America can pursue the carnage
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Iraq's turn at the League
The fact that Iraq will be heading this year's round of meetings of Arab foreign ministers has drawn a mixed Arab reaction. Rasha Saad reports
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'Saddam will not be toppled'
Iraq's minister of information says the US is incapable of toppling the Iraqi regime and calls on Kuwait to turn over a new leaf. He talked to Mohamed El-Anwar in Baghdad
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Inching closer to reconciliation?
At a seminar on Sudan at Al-Ahram's Centre for Strategic Studies, Sudanese opposition leader Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi spoke with guarded optimism about the current Egyptian-Libyan mediation effort. Later, he spoke to Gamal Nkrumah
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