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Rockets fired from Syria hit eastern Lebanon

 More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from  Syria  struck eastern  Lebanon  Saturday,  security officials  said, as tensions rise in the two countries' borderlands where Hezbollah militants are playing a bigger role in  Syria 's civil war....

Lebanese Hezbollah attacks in Syria draw response

HERMEL, Lebanon (AP) — In Shiite towns and villages near the border with Syria, residents who support Hezbollah are bearing the brunt of the militant Lebanese group's growing involvement in the Syrian civil war. Shells fired by Syria's overwhelmingly Sunni rebels regularly fall on the...

Syria contagion strikes deep into Lebanon

  Two rockets fired at Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut bring  Syria 's escalating civil war deeper into the heart of Lebanon and closer to unrestrained regional conflict. The two-year-old conflict in  Syria  has already tumbled into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley,...

Assad confirms role in Geneva peace conference

  Syria's foreign minister says President Bashar al-Assad's government has agreed "in principle" to take part in peace talks in Geneva planned for June. Walid Muallem told reporters in Baghdad that the conference was "a good opportunity for a political solution to the crisis in Syria"....