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Desperate Lebanese flee to Syria on foot 
AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 1:56 PM
Carrying luggage and infants, a couple hundred Lebanese and foreigners stepped around craters left behind from Israeli airstrikes and debris from a destroyed immigration office as they fled war-torn Lebanon for Syria on Tuesday.Syria arrests looters of antiquities from ancient Palmyra AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 10:33 AM
Syria has reportedly arrested looters trafficking in artefacts stolen from the ancient city of Palmyra, 220 kilometres (136 miles) northeast of Damascus.US paying diplomatic price for Bush refusal to deal directly with Syria, Iran AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 9:44 AM
US President George W. Bush persists in communicating only indirectly with Syria and Iran despite criticism he is paying the price for years of diplomacy rooted more in ideology than pragmatism.Syria's crucial role: Why Damascus meddles - and matters International Herald Tribune - Aug 08 7:32 AM
Syria may determine whether Israel's war with Hezbollah ends with an international force in Lebanon or escalates into a regional war.As war rages, Syria tries to reassert influence over Lebanon AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 8:21 AM
The war between Israel and Hezbollah has given Syria an opening toward reasserting its influence over Lebanon, more than a year after its troops were forced out by domestic and international pressure.Desperate Lebanese walk to Syria in search of food, shelter WIS-TV Columbia - Aug 08 6:43 PM
The highway is pockmarked with craters, so desperate Lebanese are now walking the dangerous route to Syria.Desperate Lebanese walk to Syria in search of food, shelter WHO-TV Des Moines - Aug 08 6:26 PM
ON THE LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER The highway is pockmarked with craters, so desperate Lebanese are now walking the dangerous route to Syria.Desperate Lebanese Flee To Syria On Foot KUTV.com - Aug 08 5:38 PM
(AP) ON THE LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER Carrying luggage and infants, a couple hundred Lebanese and foreigners stepped around craters left behind from Israeli airstrikes and debris from a destroyed immigration office as they fled war-torn Lebanon for Syria on Tuesday.Desperate Lebanese walk to Syria in search of food, shelter Fort Wayne News Channel 15 - Aug 08 4:15 PM
ON THE LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER The highway is pockmarked with craters, so desperate Lebanese are now walking the dangerous route to Syria. Just a few weeks ago, the...Bush raps Syria, Iran 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.Desperate Lebanese walk to Syria in search of food, shelter KBCI Boise - Aug 08 3:36 PM
ON THE LEBANON-SYRIA BORDER The highway is pockmarked with craters, so desperate Lebanese are now walking the dangerous route to Syria. Just a few weeks ago, the Beirut-Damascus highway handled hundreds of cars, trucks and buses everyday.Outside View: The case for engaging Syria UPI - Aug 08 7:44 AM
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- In my last weekly article "The Missing Link," I argued for the need to engage Syria in any future negotiations that may lead to a sustainable cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon.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.Syria Has Finger on the Trigger Israel National News - Aug 08 5:50 AM
(IsraelNN.com) Syria continues to be on the highest alert possible, and President Bashar Assad suggested that his country will continue to support Hizbullah.Bush raps Syria, Iran IranMania.com - Aug 07 10:24 PM
LONDON, August 8 (IranMania) - US President George W Bush on Monday 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, AFP reported.Help Syria, and Syria will help International Herald Tribune - Aug 06 3:01 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 - Aug 07 9:35 PM
(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 8:40 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 1:58 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."B.B.P. Leader Yazicioglu Leaves For Syria TurkishPress.com - Aug 07 7:35 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.Syria calls for Israeli pullout The Charlotte Observer - Aug 07 12:15 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 8:08 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 3:52 AM
Syria has warned that it would join hands with the Hezbollah, leading to a full-scale war in the region.Syria tries to reassert influence over Lebanon Middle East Online - Aug 08 7:28 AM
Damascus is seeking to play leading role in shaping response to conflict in Lebanon.In 100,000 strong London demonstration: "No peace in Middle East until threats to Syria and Iran are abandoned" Payvand Iran News - Aug 08 8:06 AM
Up to 100, 000 people took part in the anti-war demonstration in London on Saturday August 5, 2006 demanding an immediate ceasefire in the US and UK supported war waged by Israel against Lebanon and the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli soldiers from Lebanon. -Lebanon, Syria: Rejection Of U.N. Resolution India Daily - Aug 07 2:45 AM
Syria and Lebanon on Aug. 6 rejected a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution brokered by the United States and France.Syria: Regional war 'most welcome' MSNBC - Aug 06 7:38 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 - Aug 07 7:36 PM
The United States needs to offer a serious high-level discussion with Syria, and it needs to do it now.Syria Will Not Interfere with War between Israel and Lebanon PanARMENIAN.Net - Aug 08 7:07 AM
"In this case it will have to deal with the US and Russia in direct sense," Armenian political scientists believe.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 5:04 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...US slams Bush refusal to deal directly with Iran IranMania.com - 6 minutes ago
LONDON, August 9 (IranMania) - US President George W Bush persists in communicating only indirectly with Syria and Iran despite criticism he is paying the price for years of diplomacy rooted more in ideology than pragmatism, said AFP.Israel slams Iran, Syria The Australian - Aug 06 3:03 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.UN: Environmental Impact Of Lebanon Oil Spill Scoop.co.nz - Aug 08 4:57 PM
Two United Nations experts arrived in Syria today to evaluate the consequences of the oil spill caused by Israelâ s bombardment of a power plant in Lebanon that has already polluted over 140 kilometres of coastline, according to the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ), which reported that no clean-up action has yet been possible.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 10:36 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.Select an Edition: AlertNet - Aug 08 10:52 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 8 (UNHCR) A six-truck convoy of emergency supplies for the UN refugee agency arrived in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, the first UNHCR convoy to arrive from Syria since the main remaining road link into the country was severed by air strikes last week.Anti-U.S. feeling leaves Arab reformers isolated International Herald Tribune - 43 minutes ago
The very people whom the United States wanted to encourage to promote democracy instead feel trapped by a policy that they now ridicule more or less as "destroying the region in order to save it."OIC Decides To Open Bureaus In Syria And Lebanon TurkishPress.com - Aug 06 11:25 AM
ISTANBUL - The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) decided to open bureaus in Syria and Lebanon to carry out relief efforts effectively.Talking and Shunning in the Mideast (8 Letters) New York Times - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
To the Editor:.Syria won t hesitate to respond to Israeli aggression minister Itar-Tass - Aug 06 10:18 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.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 2:54 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.Conflict Polarizes the Mideast, Leaving Little Middle Ground New York Times - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
Moderate Arab reformers say that U.S. support for Israel s battle with Hezbollah has put them on the defensive.Syria complains to UN Security Council against Israel Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 06 9:14 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.Select an Edition: AlertNet - Aug 08 7:53 AM
BEIRUT, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Lebanon, engulfed in blood and destruction for the past four weeks, is once again caught up in a proxy war, this one pitting the United States and its ally Israel against Hizbollah's patrons Iran and Syria.Syria, Lebanon Slam Proposed U.N. Resolution Israel National News - Aug 06 2:20 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.The Political Anatomy of Lebanon Newhouse News Service - Aug 08 12:47 PM
BY GEORGE LATANZIO c. 2006 Newhouse News S ervice Before the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel erupted on July 12, Lebanon was still trying to reconcile disagreements among the country's various factions over Syria's influence, the investigation into the assassination of political leader Rafik Hariri and the disarmament of Hezbollah's militia.Batelco signs deal with Syriatel Gulf Daily News - Aug 08 2:57 PM
MANAMA: Batelco has added Syriatel in Syria to its two-way mobile prepaid (SimSim) roaming list of destinations.U.S., France At Odds on Resolution For Mideast Washington Post - 13 minutes ago
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 8 -- The United States and France have split over key provisions in a compromise resolution to end hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, triggering intense diplomatic scrambling, according to European and U.S. officials.Casualties in Lebanon-Israel fighting AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
At least 798 people have been reported killed in Lebanon and Israel since fighting broke out July 12 between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas.Colombia to evacuate citizens in Lebanon AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 6:45 PM
Colombia will send a plane to evacuate more than 100 of its citizens fleeing the fighting in Lebanon, a senator helping to organize the mission said Tuesday.Bush Wants Wider War Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel - Aug 08 9:52 AM
August 3, 2006-- G eorge W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as an opportunity to expand the conflict into Syria and possibly achieve a long-sought regime change in Damascus, but Israel s leadership balked at the scheme, according to Israeli sources.Syria wants to talk, but Bush won't Gulf News - Aug 07 2:39 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.Israeli troop issue snarls U.N. draft AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Diplomatic efforts to wrap up a long-awaited Security Council resolution on ending the war between Israel and Hezbollah have stumbled over the issue of an Israeli troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon, diplomats said Tuesday.Syria doesn't like U-N plan...Deaths on both sides...Elian wishes Fidel KBCI Boise - Aug 06 8:22 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 7:26 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.Eyewitness to the murder of Lebanon Socialist Worker - Aug 08 11:01 AM
The border with Syria is chaos. Going into Lebanon is easy. Coming out hundreds of cars and lorries are stacked up in a never ending queue. Some are HGVs driven by those desperate to get their goods and vehicles out of the war zone.Filipino evacuees in Syria after delay ABS-CBNNEWS.com - Aug 06 2:06 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.Qatar warns against U.N. Mideast draft AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Qatar's foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a draft resolution seeking a halt to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah would only make the crisis worse because it does not demand the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.Syria to respond at once if attacked by Israel KBCI Boise - Aug 06 7:21 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.Israel considers expanding war Reuters via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
Israel will decide on Wednesday whether to send troops deeper into Lebanon to fight Hizbollah guerrillas, as diplomats at the United Nations argue over a resolution that might end the war.DFA to probe rape of 2 Pinay Lebanon evacuees The Daily Tribune - Aug 08 7:12 AM
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said it will look into reports rape of two Filipino women evacuees in one of the relocation centers of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Damascus, Syria.FM flies to New York; Syria wants Athens to take on more active role Kathimerini - Aug 08 1:07 AM
Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis flew to an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday, saying that the group of countries had to intervene immediately to end the crisis in the Middle East.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.Battle to save ceasefire plan as Israel presses Lebanon offensive AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 5:30 PM
France and the United States battled to revive a desperately needed UN Security Council resolution on the Middle East conflict as Israel pressed its four-week-old military offensive against Hezbollah.Israeli airstrikes kill 14 Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 5:18 PM
Israeli air strikes killed 14 villagers in south Lebanon on Tuesday as Arab nations demanded a swift end to Israel's war with Hizbollah guerrillas that has cost around 1,000 Lebanese and 101 Israeli lives in four weeks.Batelco adds new destination to the list of its two-way mobile prepaid (SimSim) roaming service AME Info - Aug 08 4:34 AM
Batelco is adding Syriatel in Syria to the continually growing two-way mobile prepaid (SimSim) roaming list of destinations that already includes 8 operators in 7 destinations.Israel should have moved against Syria: Steyn Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Aug 07 7:12 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 Says It Is Ready to Join Hizbullah Israel National News - Aug 06 6:50 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.Scoop Link: Blumenthal - The Neocons' Next War Scoop.co.nz - Aug 08 3:42 AM
By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.1559 Or Fight Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 4:00 PM
War In Lebanon: If President Bush is serious about finding the "root cause," he won't push for another meaningless U.N. resolution. The problem is not just disarming Hezbollah. The problem is disarming Iran.Candy-Coating Terrorism At The EU Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 4:00 PM
World War III: The European Union seems to think peacemaking in the Mideast means pretending terrorists aren't terrorists. But coddling Hezbollah will only help Islamofascists grow into a global threat.Deadly Israeli strike scatters mourners AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 2:09 PM
Mourners in a funeral procession for Israeli airstrike victims scattered in panic Tuesday as warplanes again unleashed missiles that hit buildings and killed 13 people, witnesses and officials said.UN "stands by" while Lebanese die: Arab League Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 3:16 PM
An Arab League delegation accused the Security Council on Tuesday of standing by idly while weeks of fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah sow "the seeds of hatred and extremism" in the Middle East.H.D.S. Greenway: Israel's misguided strategies International Herald Tribune - Aug 08 3:01 PM
Israel's assault has not just been upon Hezbollah, but upon Lebanon itself.Syria buries air strike victims Gulf Times - Aug 06 1:51 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.New aid route sought in Lebanon Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 2:25 PM
An indefinite ban on movement imposed by Israel has made southern Lebanon a "no-go area," humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, but they were searching for a new route to help war refugees in the region.Rocket landed near GSDF camp in Golan Heights Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News - Aug 07 7:40 PM
_ 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.France, U.S. debate U.N. Mideast draft AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 12:59 PM
The United States and France wrangled Tuesday over ways to allay Lebanon's fears that Israel would win too much from a draft U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution, as three Arab envoys arrived to plead for changes to the text.UNSC pushes Syria on Lebanon ties Tiscali - Aug 06 12:11 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.Where is Nadia? The ex-husband is arrested in Syria, but the child is hidden away Lansing State Journal - Aug 07 1:19 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.Lebanese army may help break deadlock AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 1:36 PM
Lebanon's national army is no match for Israel's military. It won't take on the Hezbollah guerrillas or fight Israel head on.US, France grapple with demands for Israeli withdrawal Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 12:48 PM
The United States and France grappled on Tuesday over changes to a draft U.N. resolution aimed at ending the Israel-Hizbollah conflict as Arab officials pressed their demand that Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon.Syria accuses Israel of bombing Qaa intentionally Khaleej Times - Aug 05 9:28 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.United Nations Environment Programme [Press Release] United Nations Environment Programme - Aug 08 7:46 AM
Nairobi/Athens, 8 August 2006 - First steps towards action on the ground were initiated today with the arrival in Syria of two UN experts to evaluate the consequences of the oil spill that has already polluted over 140 kilometres of the Lebanese coastline and has spread north into Syrian waters.Anjar Armenian-Populated Village in Lebanon Not Bombed by Israelis PanARMENIAN.Net - Aug 08 2:22 AM
The road, which is 2-3 km away from Anjar and connects Lebanon with Syria from Damascus side, was bombed.U.N. suspends aid in southern Lebanon AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 11:23 AM
The United Nations suspended attempts Tuesday to send relief to southern Lebanon because of heavy shelling in the area, a spokeswoman said, though aid shipments were arriving elsewhere in the country.Beirutis again adapt to rhythm of war AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 11:48 AM
Beirut, yet again, is in the line of fire, but Beirutis have plenty of practice living in war. On the city's famed Hamra Street, the Starbucks coffee shop is closed, but most of the tables are full at Wimpy's. An upscale store selling ceramic tiles is shut, but a bookstore is open a 2004 novel, "It's Time to Return to Lebanon," on its shelves.Saudi opposition group set up in France AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 12:03 PM
The son of the last ruler of part of present-day Saudi Arabia said he was setting up an opposition party in Paris to seek democratic rule in the oil-rich kingdom.24 Killed in Baghdad as Violence Persists New York Times - Aug 08 12:01 PM
Also today, testimony continued in a hearing for four soldiers charged with rape and murder in Iraq.Govt to charter ships for evacuation plan ABS-CBNNEWS.com - Aug 07 7:51 PM
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.Israel plans deeper push into Lebanon AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 9:51 AM
Israeli forces battled Hezbollah guerrillas Tuesday across southern Lebanon as diplomats at the United Nations struggled to keep a peace plan from collapsing over Arab demands for an immediate Israeli withdrawal. Military planners in Jerusalem said they will push even deeper into Lebanon to target rocket sites.Snatchback sends mom to Syria Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Aug 07 3:18 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.Yet again, the people of Beirut adapt to the rhythm of war USA Today - Aug 08 10:43 AM
A 15-year civil war turned Beirut into a battleground until 1990. In the years since, the city recovered its reputation for beach fronts and boutiques, international cuisine and cosmopolitan flair. Now the old image of Beirut a place of bombs, death and displaced people is back.Lebanese oil spill could rival Exxon Valdez disaster: UN AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 08 11:15 AM
An oil spill caused by Israeli raids on a Lebanese power plant could rival the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that despoiled the Alaskan coast if not urgently addressed, the United Nations has said.How China's secret deals are fuelling war Times Online - Aug 07 4:35 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.New U.N. Mideast Resolution Expected CBS News - 7 minutes ago
Heavy fighting continued both on the ground and in the air in the Mideast, and the timing of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon was questioned. Israel said a Lebanese proposal to move troops to the border is "interesting."