Abbas has bet everything on cooperating with Israel, worries Khaled Amayreh

As Israel's siege of Gaza bites deeper, ever more Palestinians languish in sickness or poverty, writes Saleh Al-Naami

Nermeen Al-Mufti interviews two families who have lost everything and ponders the fate of PM Al-Maliki who also looks like he might lose all as the Iraqi political process implodes

Things aren't what they appear: the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia are playing their cards carefully in Iraq, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

Lebanon's poor northern areas are fertile ground for militant groups, Lucy Fielder reports

As time passes, evidence of grave Israeli breaches of international law during its 2006 war on Lebanon grows, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

Hizbullah's Sheikh Naim Qasim speaks to Omayma Abdel-Latif about the resistance movement one year after the US-backed Israeli war on Lebanon