Middle Orient

A deathly silence prevails in southern Beirut, as Lebanese people are evacuating to escape Israeli bombs. Hezbollah has the region under tight control to prevent infiltration by Israeli agents.

The five Palestinians died when Israeli shells hit their house in Gaza City’s Shijia district on Friday morning, medics and Hamas members said.

Taliban attacked British troops in Garmser district of Helmand province on July 20  which ignited a clash between the two sides.

US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the puppet pro-American speaker of the country’s parliament has said.

With thousands of Israeli troops massed on the Lebanese border, Lebanon’s president is warning that his army would defend the country if Israel launches a full-scale ground invasion.

An Israeli military source has ruled out a mass invasion of southern Lebanon

The posters on the walls of the Palestine Liberation Organisation shop tell the story in life-size techni-colour. Alongside the portrait of the late Palestinian leader

In an interview with CNN’s Nic Robertson, Lahoud again called for a cessation of the violence and said that if a cease-fire can’t be brokered,

“I hope that we move forward in the next day or two, things will crystallize, and that the parties will be prepared to do this

BERLIN (Reuters) – Several thousand people in Berlin protested against Israel’s bombing campaign in Lebanon on Friday, joining angry protests across the Middle East this week.