Beirut - Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed an Israeli air raid two days earlier on one of its positions in Lebanon and vowed to respond "at the appropriate time" to the "blatant aggression"."This new attack amounts to blatant aggression against Lebanon, its sove...

Beirut - Bent on halting any transfer of weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah, Israel has bombarded a position of the powerful Shiite group on the Lebanon-Syria border, sources say.On Monday night, "two Israeli raids hit a Hezbollah target on the border of Lebanon an...

Baalbek - Israel bombarded a Hezbollah position on the Lebanon-Syria border on Monday, a Lebanese security source and a Syrian NGO said."Two Israeli raids hit a Hezbollah target on the border of Lebanon and Syria," the source said.

Beirut - Lebanon's army says it is "paying the price in blood" in the fight against "terrorism", after a suicide car bombing killed two soldiers and a civilian.Shiite movement Hezbollah also condemned Saturday's attack, calling the perpetrators "the enemy of al...

Beirut - Syria's air force staged more air raids Saturday on the key rebel-held bastion of Yabrud north of Damascus, as clashes also raged on the capital's outskirts, a monitoring group said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that in the northeas...

Beirut - At least two people were killed on Wednesday in a blast in the southern suburbs of Beirut near an Iranian cultural centre, a security source told AFP.The area is surrounded by neighbourhoods that are strongholds of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbolla...

Beirut - The rebel Free Syrian Army said Sunday it had fired Selim Idriss as its military chief, citing the "difficulties faced by the Syrian revolution" in its battle with the regime.In a video broadcast on the Internet, the rebel coalition said its military c...

Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Saturday unveiled a compromise government, capping 10 months of political wrangling during which the war in neighbouring Syria exacerbated sectarian tensions.The 24-member government, including only one woman, br...

Beirut - Lebanon on Saturday formed a compromise government after a 10-month stalemate in the country, which has seen the war in neighbouring Syria exacerbate longstanding political divisions."After 10 months of efforts, of patience, a government protecting the...

Beirut - New aerial bombardment from explosives-packed barrel bombs in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 20 people on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Beirut - A coalition of Syrian rebels announced a new military operation in Aleppo province on Thursday, where more than 250 people have been killed in regime barrel bomb attacks since Saturday.

Beirut - Polio vaccination has begun in Syria's besieged Yarmuk camp, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said Wednesday.

Baalbek - The United Nations urged Lebanon's feuding factions to refrain from getting involved in Syria's crisis after a suicide car bomb left at least four people dead near the border Saturday.

Baalbek - A probable suicide car bombing killed at least four people Saturday at a petrol station in Hermel, a stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, Lebanon's interior minister said.

Beirut - At least nine people were killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-filled barrels on two neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, a monitoring group said.

Beirut - Syrian government and opposition delegations leave 10 days of peace talks with few results and a follow-up meeting uncertain, but analysts and negotiators say the discussions are an important beginning.

Beirut - Syria's government has razed thousands of homes as "collective punishment" of communities that back the opposition in the capital Damascus and in Hama province, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

New York - The international war being waged inside of Syria has created a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions. Estimates of numbers killed in the war since March 2011 range from 94,000 to 130,000.

Beirut - A suicide bomber killed four people in south Beirut Tuesday, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting strongholds of Lebanon's powerful Shiite movement and Syria ally Hezbollah.

Beirut - An explosion hit Hezbollah's southern Beirut bastion on Tuesday, the Lebanese Shiite movement's television channel Al-Manar said.The blast took place on a busy commercial street that was targeted by a deadly suicide car bombing in early January.