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AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 10:19 AM
US President George W. Bush accused Syria and Iran of fomenting "chaos" in the Middle East, and said both knew exactly what they must do to escape US diplomatic crosshairs.Syria and Iran must rein in Hizbollah: Bush Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 7:34 AM
President George W. Bush on Monday blamed Hizbollah for provoking the crisis in Lebanon and called on Syria and Iran to rein in the organization.Help Syria, and Syria will help International Herald Tribune - Aug 06 2:59 PM
American support for reform in Syria would erode Syria's reasons for backing Iran and Hezbollah.Syria & Iran Still Running the War Israel National News - 17 minutes ago
(IsraelNN.com) According to a senior officer in military intelligence, briefing the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, Syria continues to supply Hizbullah with weapons Iran continues to run the war, giving instructions to the terror organization.Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 06 10:26 AM
Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.Syria's U.S. Ambassador: Syria Can Play 'Constructive Role' in Resolving Lebanese War Foreign Relations - Aug 07 8:45 AM
The Hezbollah militia battling Israeli forces in Lebanon is widely believed to receive arms and other support from Syria and Iran. Last year Syria withdrew its remaining 15,000 forces from Lebanon to comply with the demands of the UN Security Council, but regional experts say it continues to exert influence in the country, particularly through assisting Hezbollah.Venezuelan deputies deliver in Syria instrument backing Lebanon El Universal - Aug 07 1:57 PM
From Damascus, the capital city of Syria, congresswoman Desirée Santos Amaral, reported on the delivery of an agreement approved at the National Assembly (AN), whereby "the attack by Israel and the United States on Arabian-Palestine people is rejected."Syria calls for Israeli pullout The Charlotte Observer - Aug 07 12:02 AM
Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israel and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.Israel destroys Lebanon's last major tie to Syria Coos Bay World Link - Aug 07 8:14 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air strikes Friday - including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket strike inside Israel to date.Syria offer to join Hezbollah IBN live - Aug 07 3:48 AM
Syria has warned that it would join hands with the Hezbollah, leading to a full-scale war in the region.B.B.P. Leader Yazicioglu Leaves For Syria TurkishPress.com - Aug 07 7:40 AM
ANKARA - Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of the Grand Unity Party (BBP), left for Syria on Monday to hold a series of talks. Yazicioglu is scheduled to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Utri.Lebanon, Syria: Rejection Of U.N. Resolution India Daily - Aug 07 2:40 AM
Syria and Lebanon on Aug. 6 rejected a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution brokered by the United States and France.Israel slams Iran, Syria over Hezbollah IranMania.com - Aug 07 2:00 AM
LONDON, August 7 (IranMania) - According to an AFP report, Israel accused Iran of "stoking instability in the region" and also slammed Syria, after a barrage of Hezbollah rocket fire killed 15 people in northern Israel.Syria: Regional war 'most welcome' MSNBC - Aug 06 7:33 AM
Syria s foreign minister offered on Sunday to join Hezbollah and said his country s army had standing orders to respond immediately to any Israeli attacks.Start Talking New York Times - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
The United States needs to offer a serious high-level discussion with Syria, and it needs to do it now.Nasrallah CDs, mementos sell like hot cakes in Syria Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 4:10 AM
Excerpts from a speech by Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah blast from the speakers of Tareq Otabashi's music shop in the Syrian capital.Chilling threat as Syria offer to join with Hezbollah The Scotsman - Aug 06 4:58 PM
SYRIA'S foreign minister yesterday offered to join militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel and said a regional war would be "most welcome" as more than 30 people in Israel and Lebanon were killed on one of the worst days since the conflict...Israel slams Iran, Syria News Interactive - Aug 06 3:02 PM
ISRAEL has accused Iran of "stoking instability in the region" and also slammed Syria, after a barrage of Hezbollah rocket fire killed 15 people in northern Israel.Ancient Syrian Settlements Seen in Spy Satellite Images SPACE.com / LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 2:30 PM
Spy satellite images taken in the 1960s and declassified in the 1990s have been used to find ancient settlements in Syria.Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan Syracuse.com - Aug 06 10:35 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.Syria won t hesitate to respond to Israeli aggression minister Itar-Tass - Aug 06 10:57 AM
BEIRUT, August 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Syria will not hesitate to respond to an Israeli aggression and engage in a regional war, Foreign Minister Walid Mualem told a Sunday press conference in Beirut.OIC Decides To Open Bureaus In Syria And Lebanon TurkishPress.com - Aug 06 11:37 AM
ISTANBUL - The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) decided to open bureaus in Syria and Lebanon to carry out relief efforts effectively.Hizbollah fighter tells Israel he trained in Iran Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 11:35 AM
A Hizbollah fighter captured by Israel has told interrogators he received training in Iran and arrived there on a flight from Syria, a tape of the interrogation released by the Israeli army showed on Monday.SYRIA READY FOR WAR Gulf Daily News - Aug 06 2:51 PM
BEIRUT: Syria yesterday said it was ready for regional war and condemned a draft UN resolution seeking to end the violence in Lebanon as merely a recipe for more conflict.Syria complains to UN Security Council against Israel Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 06 9:20 AM
Lebanon - Syria - Provocation Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Israel has deliberately bombed the Lebanese village of Qaa near the Syrian border where 28 people, mostly Syrians, were killed.Syria, Lebanon Slam Proposed U.N. Resolution Israel National News - Aug 06 2:12 PM
(IsraelNN.com) Both Syria and Lebanon have rejected a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution drawn up by France and the United States. Lebanon demanded that the resolution include a clause forcing Israel to withdraw its forces from the country.Syria wants to talk, but Bush won't Gulf News - Aug 07 2:38 PM
Late last month, a number of Congressmen called me and asked for an urgent, unscheduled meeting. There, at the Rayburn House Office Building, we spent a couple of hours discussing in-depth the crisis in the Middle East.Syria doesn't like U-N plan...Deaths on both sides...Elian wishes Fidel KBCI Boise - Aug 06 9:04 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syria's foreign minister says the U-S-French U-N cease-fire plan is "a recipe for the continuation of the war" unless Israeli troops first pull out of Lebanon. He also says Syria's armed forces are under orders to respond immediately to an Israeli assault.Rice tells Iran, Syria not to "torpedo" cease-fire Tiscali - Aug 06 7:28 AM
DOHA, Qatar (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned Syria and Iran on Wednesday that they faced further isolation if they tried to scupper U.S.-led attempts to get a cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel.Filipino evacuees in Syria after delay ABS-CBNNEWS.com - Aug 06 2:15 AM
A convoy of Filipino evacuees from Lebanon arrived in Syria after being delayed following the destruction of roads used to flee the war-torn country, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Sunday.Syria to respond at once if attacked by Israel KBCI Boise - Aug 06 7:04 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syria is vowing to respond "immediately" if it's attacked by Israel. The warning comes from the Syrian foreign minister, who says his country's armed forces are on orders to respond to any Israeli attack, be it by ground or air.Syria ready for regional war, blasts UN resolution AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 06 8:50 AM
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said Damascus was ready for regional war and condemned a draft UN resolution seeking to end the violence in Lebanon as merely a recipe for more conflict.Syria Says It Is Ready to Join Hizbullah Israel National News - Aug 06 6:57 AM
(IsraelNN.com) The Syrian foreign minister has warned that he is ready to join Hizbullah fighters and that Syria would welcome a war with Israel. Walid Mouallem told reporters after landing in Lebanon Sunday afternoon, "Syria is readying itself and doesn't hide its (military) readiness.Israel should have moved against Syria: Steyn Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Aug 07 7:22 AM
MARK COLVIN: One of the loudest defenders of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption in the Middle East has been the blogger and columnist Mark Steyn, who's currently visiting Australia.Syria buries air strike victims Gulf Times - Aug 06 1:47 AM
Grief and shock engulfed a remote village in north-west Syria yesterday as its inhabitants buried 23 locals killed by an Israeli missile strike on Lebanon.Rocket landed near GSDF camp in Golan Heights Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
_ A rocket landed near Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force camp in Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last Friday, forcing some 30 GSDF personnel to evacuate to a bomb shelter, Japanese government sources said Tuesday.Where is Nadia? The ex-husband is arrested in Syria, but the child is hidden away Lansing State Journal - Aug 07 1:28 AM
The story so far: When Maureen Dabbagh's ex-husband spirited their 3-year-old daughter away to the Middle East, authorities could do little. So this desperate, ordinary woman sought help in the shadowy world of the child recovery industry - and eventually became an agent herself, helping to bring back other people's children as she tried to regain her own.UNSC pushes Syria on Lebanon ties Tiscali - Aug 06 12:13 AM
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A divided U.N. Security Council on Wednesday pressed Syria to improve its diplomatic ties with Lebanon and clarify their shared border to help turn the page on decades of Syrian domination of its neighbour.Syria accuses Israel of bombing Qaa intentionally Khaleej Times - Aug 05 9:17 PM
DAMASCUS - Syria late Saturday accused Israel of having intentionally bombed the Lebanese village of Qaa near the Syrian border where 28 people, mostly Syrians, were killed, the official Sana news agency reported.Govt to charter ships for evacuation plan ABS-CBNNEWS.com - 2 hours, 0 minute ago
Government officials are negotiating with ferry operators in Cyprus and Syria for the evacuation of thousands of Filipinos stranded in Lebanon, Marianito Roque, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator, said Tuesday.Snatchback sends mom to Syria Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Aug 07 3:21 AM
Child recovery in the Mideast, Maureen Dabbagh came to learn, was no tidy business. To pull off a snatchback, you had to have friends in high, and low, places. You had to have escape routes. You had to keep police and border guards sweet. It helped to be good with a gun.How China's secret deals are fuelling war Times Online - Aug 07 4:52 PM
THE STORY behind the story in the Middle East today is the proxy war, as Israel, on behalf of the US, takes on Hezbollah, which fights on behalf of Iran and Syria. Indeed, one can widen it further and describe the participants as proxies for the West versus militant Islam.Syria demands compensation for 26 citizens killed in Israeli air raid CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Aug 05 2:05 PM
JANDIRES, Syria (AP) - Grief and shock swept through a small, impoverished village in northwestern Syria on Saturday as it buried 23 of its people who were killed when Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse just across the border in Lebanon.Oil slick threatens region AME Info - 45 minutes ago
An oil slick from a damaged power station in Lebanon has reached Syria and could threaten Cyprus, Turkey and Greece if left unchecked, the Financial Times reported.Tuesday August 8, 2006 The New Zealand Herald - Aug 07 6:11 PM
NAIROBI - Oil leaking from a bombed power station in Lebanon has reached the coastline of neighbouring Syria and is spreading north, the Kenya-based United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said.Gov't works on sea evacuation of Filipino workers in Lebanon (10:55 a.m.) Sun Star - 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
MANILA -- The Philippines is talking to operators of ferry boats in Cyprus and Syria for the transport of Filipinos stranded in Lebanon.Syria and Iran at Odds by James Dunnigan August 6, 2006 Strategy Page - Aug 05 9:32 PM
While Syria is rather strongly allied with Iran in supporting Hizbollah in Lebanon, this alliance is not so strong when it comes to the complex Iraqi situation.Syria Rejects Mideast Cease-Fire Plan ABC News - Aug 06 10:58 AM
Syrian Foreign Minister Calls U.S.-French Cease-Fire Plan a Recipe for Continuing War3rd batch of OFWs evacuated from Lebanon arrive at NAIA INQ7.net - Aug 07 5:44 PM
THE third batch of distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to be evacuated from war-torn Lebanon arrived from Damascus, Syria at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Tuesday morning, radio reports said.Syrian, Lebanese presidents discuss draft UN resolution over phone People's Daily - 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday discussed over phone with his Lebanese counterpart Emile Lahoud a draft UN resolution on continued conflicts between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, Syria's SANA news agency reported. The two leaders stressed that "any formula (for a UN resolution) should be agreed by a Lebanese consensus," SANA said.Israel: U.N. deal must disarm Hezbollah AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 06 5:41 PM
A U.N.-declared cease-fire to stop the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas must ensure that the militant Shiite group cannot be rearmed by Syria and Iran, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.Plans up to move OFWs out by sea INQ7.net - Aug 07 12:44 PM
THE GOVERNMENT intends to evacuate Filipino workers from Lebanon by sea either through Syria or Cyprus beginning this week, Foreign Undersecretary Esteban Conejos Jr. announced.Syria Transfers Deadly Russian Weapons to Hezbollah Paper Mosnews - Aug 07 12:25 AM
The majority of the Israeli Defense Force s ground-troop casualties, both infantry and armored, were the result of Russian-made anti-tank units of Hezbollah, according to intelligence sources quoted by Haaretz daily.Where is Nadia? The ex-husband is arrested in Syria, but the child is hidden away Eaton Rapids Community News - Aug 07 1:05 AM
The story so far: When Maureen Dabbagh's ex-husband spirited their 3-year-old daughter away to the Middle East, authorities could do little.UPI Energy Watch UPI - Aug 07 1:23 PM
Turkish companies are considering sending Lebanon emergency oil supplies through Syria after Beirut made a plea for supplies following Israel's blockade.Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria The Arizona Republic - Aug 05 3:35 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday, including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.Bush urges quick approval of cease-fire Baltimore Sun - Aug 07 8:15 AM
President blames Syria, Iran for supporting Hezbollah, 'creating chaos' President Bush said today he recognizes that Israel and Hezbollah are objecting to parts of a Mideast cease-fire resolution but said "we all recognize that the violence must stop." Bush: We have been in touch with Syria over the Lebanon crisis but their response was not positive at all DEBKAfile - Aug 07 7:49 AM
The US president said this in a special Middle East statement Monday, Aug. 7. In terms of Iran, we made it clear that if they were to honor previous obligations and verify uranium enrichment, they have a seat at the table. The US is working with allies to bring pressure on those two governments.Syria ready for regional war: FM AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 06 5:50 AM
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said that Damascus was ready for regional war and will respond "immediately" to any Israeli attack.Bouckaert: Both Israel and Hezbollah Committing 'War Crimes' Foreign Relations - Aug 07 1:00 PM
Peter N. Bouckaert, a senior emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch who has been traveling in Lebanon and Syria, says that both Hezbollah and Israel have been committing 'war crimes' by their strikes against civilians on either side of the Israeli-Lebanese border.US jabs Iran, Syria, as seeks UN Lebanon resolution AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 04 11:02 AM
The United States issued a new rebuke to Iran and Syria accusing them of directing Hezbollah, as it said agreement on a UN resolution on the conflict in Lebanon was moving ever closer.Quake aid ruse set up Hezbollah, Israel says Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 07 7:27 AM
SYRIAN transport aircraft that carried aid to Iran after a massive earthquake in 2003 returned to Syria carrying sophisticated weapons which Damascus then passed on to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli military intelligence alleges. -Select an Edition: AlertNet - Aug 07 9:25 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 7 (UNHCR) After days of waiting to enter Lebanon following the bombing of the main road south from Syria, the UNHCR said it hoped that six trucks would cross the border on Monday and proceed to Beirut with relief supplies in a United Nations convoy.Select an Edition: AlertNet - Aug 07 9:40 AM
DAMASCUS, 7 August (IRIN) - Zahra Sayagh, 44, was confined to her house with her five boys in the southern village of Qana for nearly three weeks while Israel bombarded the area. The family left for Syria during a 48-hour partial suspension of air strikes last week.Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 04 8:51 AM
Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria.Lebanon road to Syria cut Detroit Free Press - Aug 05 12:02 AM
BEIRUT -- Israeli warplanes destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon's last untouched highway Friday, severing the country's final major connection to Syria and deepening its isolation.Syria ready for regional war The Peninsula - Aug 06 5:04 PM
BEIRUT Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallam yesterday said Damascus was ready for regional war and condemned a draft UN resolution seeking to end the violence in Lebanon as merely a recipe for more conflict.28 farmers killed in Israeli air raids on Lebanon-Syria border Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 05 9:35 AM
Israel - Syria Four Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigeration house where farm workers were loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border on Friday, killing at least 28 people.Syrian FM: We are ready for regional war Middle East Online - Aug 07 7:07 AM
Muallem says Syria will respond to any Israeli aggression immediately, blast draft UN resolution.Israel: U.N. Deal Must Disarm Hezbollah ABC News - Aug 06 5:58 PM
Israel: U.N. Cease-Fire Deal Must Ensure Hezbollah Cannot Be Rearmed by Iran and SyriaSyria ready for regional war : Attacks won t stop soon: Rice Dawn - Aug 06 8:44 PM
BEIRUT, Aug 6: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Sunday said Damascus was ready for regional war and condemned a draft UN resolution seeking to end the violence in Lebanon as merely a recipe for more conflict.Lebanese PM rejects U.N. cease-fire plan AP via Yahoo! News - 55 minutes ago
Lebanon's government rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan backed by President Bush on Monday, demanding Israel immediately withdraw even before a peacekeeping force arrives and promising to send 15,000 troops to take control of the Hezbollah stronghold along the border.'Fantasy' fails to grasp root of Mideast conflict USA Today - Aug 07 6:02 PM
Commentary writer George Bisharat's picture of a beautiful Beirut that has been ruined, in part, by Israel's "history of violence against Arab civilians" during the past 60 years is pure fantasy.Lebanon's Proposals Change Dynamics Washington Post - 48 minutes ago
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 7 -- U.S. diplomatic efforts to end the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah stalled Monday amid growing divisions over terms to end the conflict. President Bush called for swift passage of a U.N. resolution, but Lebanon won Arab League support for major revisions to...Iraqi police unearth weapons caches; conduct solo operations in Iraq United States Marines - Aug 07 11:49 AM
KARABILAH, Iraq (Aug. 7, 2006) -- Coalition Forces are not the only ones taking bomb-making material and other weapons out of insurgents hands Iraqi police in this city bordering Syria recently found two hidden stashes of munitions and weapons.Arab nations demand UN shift to end Lebanon war Reuters via Yahoo! News - 55 minutes ago
Arab countries will press the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday for changes to a draft resolution to end the four-week-old war between Israel and Hizbollah because they say it favors the Jewish state.Syria-Lebanon Road Targeted in Israeli Strike NPR - Aug 04 2:47 PM
In its offensive against Lebanon-based Hezbollah, Israel has bombed the main highway north of Beirut, which leads to Syria. The Israeli military says the attacks were meant to stop the flow of weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. Melissa Block talks with Imad Moustapha, Syria's ambassador to the United States.Lebanon pleads for ceasefire as Annan says Qana killings may be breach of international law AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora made a tearful plea for an end to the four-week conflict in Lebanon as 69 people were killed in a new blitz of air raids and Israel warned of no limit to its offensive.Bush cautions on Lebanon cease-fire AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago
President Bush said Monday any Mideast cease-fire must prevent Hezbollah from strengthening its grip in southern Lebanon, asserting "it's time to address root causes of problems."Syria and Lebanon on Aug. 6 rejected a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution brokered by the United States and India Daily - Aug 06 4:23 PM
Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the resolution is a recipe for instability, while the Lebanese government demanded the inclusion of a clause forcing Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.Bush s hard line hampers diplomacy, ex-officials say Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Aug 07 3:46 AM
WASHINGTON The Bush administration s policy of refusing to engage with nations and groups linked to terrorism, including Syria, Iran and Palestinian factions, has sharply curtailed U.S. maneuvering room during the war between Israel and Hezbollah, according to former administration officials and outside experts.Turkey's Humanitarian Aid To Lebanese People TurkishPress.com - Aug 07 7:37 AM
ANKARA - Turkey will send 1.2 million USD humanitarian aid to Lebanese people, officials said. Releasing a statement, Turkish MFA said that Turkish government decided to send aid of 1 million USD to Lebanon and 200,000 USD to Syria where displaced Lebanese citizens took refuge.Syria Under Orders To Respond If Attacked KGO-TV Bay Area - Aug 06 11:39 AM
The Syrian foreign minister declared that the U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war."Lebanese infrastructure damage tops $2.5B USA Today - 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
Israel's bombing campaign in Lebanon has sliced the country into pieces and caused more than $2.5 billion in damage, says Lebanon's Council for Development and Reconstruction.4 OFWs briefly held at Syrian border INQ7.net - Aug 07 3:44 AM
FOUR Filipinos fleeing the fighting in Lebanon were briefly detained Sunday by immigration authorities at the Syrian border, television reports said. The four were prevented from entering Syria after their Lebanese employers accused them of stealing, GMA Network s Unang Hirit morning newscast reported.Hezbollah employs sophisticated array of tactics, weapons Sun-Sentinel - Aug 07 12:13 AM
JERUSALEM · On Dec. 26, 2003, a massive earthquake leveled most of Bam, in southeastern Iran, killing 35,000. Transport planes carrying aid poured in from everywhere, including Syria.Israeli strike hits farm warehouse Coos Bay World Link - Aug 07 8:14 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Four Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border on Friday, killing at least 28 people, according to officials at the Syrian hospitals where the dead and wounded were taken.RP appeals for safe passage of fleeing Filipinos in Lebanon INQ7.net - Aug 07 4:44 AM
THE Philippines has reiterated appeals to Israel to ensure the safe passage of Filipinos streaming out of war-battered Lebanon, after Israeli air strikes last week cut off a major exit channel and forced refugees to brave a longer, unfamiliar route to neighboring Syria.Israeli strikes and curfew stymie aid efforts Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 6:21 PM
Israel destroyed the last main crossing over Lebanon's Litani river on Monday and imposed an indefinite ban on movement in the south, paralyzing humanitarian efforts to reach thousands trapped there, aid groups said.World leaders press on, but path to peace is uncertain USA Today - Aug 07 5:55 PM
With civilians dying daily on both sides and the risk of a wider war, United Nations resolutions aimed at stopping the intensifying violence between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas are worthy efforts that, if approved, would carry the weight of international opinion.Arab World Finds Icon in Leader of Hezbollah Gasden Times - Aug 07 3:05 AM
DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 6 The success or failure of any cease-fire in Lebanon will largely hinge on the opinion of one figure: Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, who has seen his own aura and that of his party enhanced immeasurably by battling the Israeli Army for nearly four weeks.DEBKA file DEBKAfile - Aug 07 2:49 AM
While Israeli officials keep on insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict, the fact is that the Assad regime is already in it up to their ears with a leading role in the Hizballah rocket attacks on northern Israel.Can a Multinational Force Be Deployed in Lebanon? Middle East Online - Aug 07 3:52 AM
A multinational force for Israel's war in Lebanon would be unhelpful unless and until a ceasefire is obtained and negotiations are begun between Israel and Lebanon, including Hezbollah - and would best include Iran and Syria, says Patrick Seale .Letters to the editor, Aug. 5, 2006 The Ashland Daily Press - Aug 07 8:10 AM
I compliment Mr. Gehrke on his comments (Daily Press, Aug. 3) about the need of a full understanding of the issues in the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, in which Hezbollah is the major Israeli opponent, supported by Iran and Syria.Lebanese oil slick threatens neighbouring regions Financial Express - Aug 07 8:44 AM
AN oil slick affecting more than 80km of the Lebanese coastline has reached Syria and could threaten Cyprus, Turkey and Greece if left unchecked.Israel severs Lebanon-Syria artery Tracy Press - Aug 05 5:15 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday including bombing raids that severed Lebanon s last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.Even the dogs were crying Mail and Guardian - Aug 07 5:32 AM
I entered Lebanon through its northern border with Syria, since the usual eastern border, the Damascus-Beirut highway, was bombed by the Israelis on July 29 to the point that it became impassable.Tearful Lebanese PM pleads for war's end AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 3:28 PM
A tearful Lebanese prime minister pleaded for an end to a war that has killed more than 700 people, including at least 51 on Monday. He declared U.N. diplomacy pointless unless the world body orders an immediate Israeli pullout from his country after a cease-fire with Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanon braces for more war Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 3:45 PM
Rescue workers on Tuesday hunted for survivors of an Israeli air strike in Beirut as Lebanon braced for an expansion of the ground war threatened by the Jewish state if diplomacy to end the conflict remains stalled.Bush urges quick UN resolution, faces objections AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 07 3:40 PM
US President George W. Bush on downplayed Israeli and Lebanese concerns about a draft UN resolution to end the Lebanon crisis and insisted the measure was needed "as quickly as possible."