Richard Engel
Richard Engel
Richard Engelis an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 September 1973
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.
The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.
If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.
Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.
Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.