Ten gunmen from Syria opened fire on troops patrolling an isolated border area in the north, the Associated Press reported a Jordanian army spokesman as saying. It is the first time that Jordan publicly reports an armed attack from Syria, although there have been several smuggling...

Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah said Sunday his party would continue fighting in Syria despite the wave of car bombings targeting predominantly Shiite areas in Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah. “I will not repeat what I explained before about the reason we went to Syria...

Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria worsened internal instability. A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March as...

Leading Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri vowed on Friday to tackle sectarian radicalism in his Sunni sect but said Shi'ite Hezbollah must end its involvement in  Syria  if Lebanon is to avoid being drawn into a "sectarian holocaust". Citing the example set by his...