Voice of America | Car bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon USA TODAY While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, there have been growing fears in Lebanon that Hezbollah could face retaliation for its now overt role fighting alongside Assad's troops. The group's fighters played a key role in a recent regime ... UN Security Council Fears for Lebanon's Stability Lebanon Alarmed by Over 1 Million Syrian Refugees Is Lebanon Unraveling? |
UN: Lebanon alarmed by over 1 million Syrian refugees and numbers rising Washington Post The United Nations Security Council issued a statement thanking Lebanon for taking in 587,000 Syrian refugees. But Lebanese U.N. Ambassador Nawaf Salam told reporters that many more have come into Lebanon without registering and are staying with ... |
Car bomb strikes Hezbollah Beirut stronghold USA TODAY While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, there have been growing fears in Lebanon that Hezbollah could face retaliation for its now overt role fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's troops inside Syria, including, activists say, in ... |
Lebanon car bomb renews fears of spillover violence from Syria Los Angeles Times Officials from various political movements and religious groups denounced the attack — which occurred as residents were preparing for the start of Ramadan, a Muslim month of fasting — as an effort to sow discord in Lebanon. A fragile peace has held ... |
Lebanon: UN envoy condemns 'cowardly' attack in Beirut suburb UN News Centre Following closed-door talks on Lebanon this afternoon, Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo of the United States, which holds the Council's presidency for the month, said the 15-member body had expressed its strong support for United Nations Interim Force in ... |
Syrian civil war spills onto Lebanon's streets 10.07.2013 Deutsche Welle Syrian civil war spills onto Lebanon's streets. The vicious Syrian civil war has spilled over to Lebanon, where clashes between pro- and anti-rebel groups regularly break out, appropriately enough, on Tripoli's Syria Street. Syria Street in this ... |
Yes, Syria's mess is screwing up Lebanon, too GlobalPost AARSAL, Lebanon — Set in the foothills along the northeastern edge of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, this dusty backcountry town near the Syrian border has seen its population skyrocket over the past two years — a direct result of the raging conflict next door. |
Telegraph.co.uk | UK pledges £50 million to help Lebanon cope with Syrian refugees Telegraph.co.uk Lebanon is hosting more refugees as a percentage of the population than any other country in the world. Over half a million Syrians have already fled across the border and, with up to 3,000 new arrival's every day, that number is "set to double by ... |
Will Offshore Gas Spark New Lebanon-Israel Conflic... Al-Monitor On July 5, acting Lebanese Energy Minister Gebran Bassil announced that for the first time ever, Israel could, intentionally or as a result of its legitimate gas extraction operations in the Mediterranean Sea, steal Lebanon's share of this commodity ... |
Lebanon Blast: Explosion Rocks Hezbollah Stronghold As Ramadan Begins Huffington Post The blast in the heart of the Shiite militant group's bastion of support raised the worrying specter of Lebanon being pulled into the violent Sunni-Shiite struggle in the region, with sectarian killings similar to those plaguing Syria and Iraq. The ... |