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DAMASCUS,(SANA) – Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Sunday was handed humanitarian aid from the Turkish government to the Lebanese incomers who fled their country due to the Israeli brutal aggression on Lebanon.
Read More »Syrian-Lebanese Joint Media Dialogue Session Is Held
DAMASCUS, Aug. 13 (SANA)- The Israeli savage onslaught on Lebanon came in accordance with pre-made schemes and backgrounds for carrying out an agenda that Israel couldn’t implement through the 1559 UNSC resolution, Information Minister said Sunday.
Read More »Hizbollah downs Israeli copter as Lebanon approves UN resolution
Jordan says truce vote first step to end bloodshed BEIRUT (Reuters) — Israeli forces battled Hizbollah fighters in a push deeper into Lebanon on Saturday and up to 17 Israeli soldiers were reported killed, as both sides said they would obey a UN resolution on a truce — but not …
Read More »Mideast powers hopeful about UN resolution
AMMAN (AFP) — Key Middle East players were hopeful Saturday that a UN Security Council resolution would bring an end to the Lebanon conflict, even as Israel expanded its military offensive.
Read More »War paralyses Lebanon aid
BEIRUT — Heavy fighting between Israel and Hizbollah fighters paralysed efforts to reach 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Saturday, aid workers said, despite a UN Security Council resolution to end the war.
Read More »Troops arrest 60 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — US forces raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an Al Qaeda cell blamed for a spate of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, the US military said Saturday.
Read More »US, Italy shipyards in lead to build new Iraqi navy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — US and Italian shipyards are favoured to win tenders to build 19 ships and patrol boats for the fledgling Iraqi navy to enable it to take over security of Iraq’s vital off-shore oil terminals, a naval official said.
Read More »In Tyre, hope, scepticism that peace is near
TYRE — The lights went out across Tyre Saturday for the first time since the war began, but finally there is a hint of optimism that the end may be in sight.
Read More »UN peacekeepers hold fast in southern Lebanon
IBL EL SAQI, Lebanon — During Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, a Norwegian UN peacekeeper at a junction checkpoint stepped forward and hailed approaching Israeli military vehicles. He was gunned down on the spot.
Read More »Hizbollah fights Israeli push
King discusses Lebanon crisis with Prodi, renews support for Siniora’s plan to end war MARJAYOUN (Reuters) — Hizbollah fighters fought Israeli troops who seized a key town in southeast Lebanon on Thursday, as the United States and France moved closer to a breakthrough in diplomatic efforts to end the four-week-old …
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