Car bomb rocks Beirut
A powerful car bomb ripped through a street in mainly Christian east Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding scores, as tensions grow in Lebanon over the war in neighbouring Syria
Pope calls for Christian-Muslim harmony in Mideast
Pope Benedict XVI urged Middle Eastern Christians and Muslims on Saturday to forge a harmonious, pluralistic society in which the dignity of each person is respected and the right to worship in peace
Israel's ‘tunnel rats’ brace for new guerrilla war
Fearing a surge in tunnel and bunker construction by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinian militants, Israel is training its troops to hunt below ground with robot probes and sniffer dogs.
Such prepara
Wounded British journalist smuggled from Syria
A wounded British photographer who had been trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs was spirited safely into Lebanon on Tuesday in a risky journey that killed 13 rebels who helped him escape the r
Hariri-led caretaker Lebanon govt set up
Jan. 13: Lebanon’s President asked Saad al-Hariri to stay on as caretaker Prime Minister on Thursday after Hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned in a dispute over an investigation into the kil
Lebanon PM to visit Iran amid political crisis
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will make his first official visit to Iran this weekend when he will meet with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials, a government official said on Tues
Israel approves pullout from Lebanon border town
Israel has approved a withdrawal from the northern side of a divided town along the volatile Lebanese border.
Iran's Ahmadinejad predicts Israel's demise
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the demise of arch-foe Israel from a Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon, just miles from the Jewish state.
"The whole world knows that the Zionists are goin