During the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982, a rumor circulated throughout Akram Zaatari’s hometown, Saida. It was said that an Israeli fighter pilot was ordered to bomb a school there but refused ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Violent sectarian spillover from the Syrian conflict reached across southern Lebanon on Tuesday, with armed clashes by rival groups of Sunni and Shiite militia members in the ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A protester was shot and killed on Sunday near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, apparently in a clash between supporters and opponents of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese Shiite Muslim ... Read more
NEAR QUSAYR, Syria — In the final days of their stubborn but increasingly hopeless stand against an overwhelming assault, Syrian rebels hid among the concrete shells of destroyed houses in the village of ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The United States came “late” to efforts to find a political settlement to the war in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday, as the crisis there deepened with political ... Read more
BAGHDAD — Renewed sectarian killing has brought the highest death toll in Iraq in five years. Young Iraqi scholars at a Shiite Muslim seminary volunteer to fight Sunnis in Syria. Far to the west, in ... Read more
Lebanon’s Parliament on Friday voted to delay elections, which had been scheduled to take place on June 16, for at least 17 months. It is the first such delay since the end of Lebanon’s ... Read more
Soldiers in northern Nigeria uncovered an arms cache that the authorities say they believe belonged to members of the Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah, the military and secret police ... Read more
BEIRUT — As Syria’s civil war has increasingly encroached on Damascus and its environs in the past six months, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in and around the capital have found ... Read more
GENEVA — The United Nations Human Rights Council went into an emergency session on Syria on Wednesday to debate a draft resolution that called for an immediate end to fighting around the strategic town of ... Read more