Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah warned on Wednesday it will respond to Israel’s Monday night air strike. "We will retaliate for this Israeli aggression, and the resistance will choose the appropriate time and place as well as appropriate means to respond,” the militant Shiite...
Scores of Islamist fighters were killed in an army ambush in the Eastern Ghouta area of the capital Damascus, Syria's national news agency SANA said on Wednesday. Lebanon's Al Manar television said the attack occurred near the town of Otaiba and that the death toll may have been higher...
A coalition of international diplomats and bankers will meet over a political and humanitarian crisis looming in Lebanon as it struggles with spillover from the war in neighboring Syria, a senior U.S. official said, according to the Associated Press. French Foreign Minister Laurent...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday Israel was doing all that was "necessary" to ensure its security, following reports of an air raid against Hezbollah targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border. "We are doing everything that is necessary in order to defend the security of...
