TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the answer to the conflict in south Lebanon was the “elimination of the Zionist regime”, slamming Israel’s “war against humanity”. “The real cure for the conflict is elimination of the Zionist regime, but there should be first an immediate ceasefire,” the …

LONDON — The biggest obstacle to creating an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon is determining who will lead it, while questions remain over troops and transport, defence analysts said on Thursday. The two most likely and experienced candidates to lead the peacekeepers would be the European Union or France, with …

BEIRUT — Fadia Ballout can no longer nurse her son as he screams with hunger. Traumatised by her family’s escape from a southern Lebanese village close to Qana, where an Israeli air strike killed 60 people on Sunday, her breastmilk has stopped. As 18-month-old Hussein latched onto his mother’s breast, …

TYRE — A stinging odour hangs over the Palestinian refugee camp of Bass, at the entrance to the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the chosen site for a mass grave for the dozens of victims of Israel’s blistering bombardment of the area. “Tyre has now become the morgue for the …

AARIDA, Lebanon — The topsy-turvy world of conflicts in the Middle East has also made its mark at the only remaining safe passage out of Lebanon, the remote Aarida post on the border with Syria. An Iraqi family passing through had had enough of their so-called holiday away from the …

TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) — Four US soldiers accused of killing three Iraqi prisoners refused to give evidence on Thursday as a military hearing heard that one of the captives’ brains were blown out as he lay injured. The troops followed the lead of several of their superior officers, invoking their …

Practically every week military units of  Dagestani Front eliminate Russian kafirs (infidels) and their local proxies in Russia-occupied Caucasian state of Dagestan, says a  press release issued today, August 3, by  Mujahideen of  Dagestani Front and Sharia Jamaat,  which was sent to the Kavkaz Center news agency.

Five Russian soldiers were killed on Thursday in the war-torn republic of Chechnya, puppet police said. The puppet soldiers were burned alive when the vehicle they were travelling in exploded in Chechnya’s second biggest town, Gudermes. The vehicle veered off the road, crashed into an electricity pole, overturned and caught …

6 Russians kafirs (infidels) from occupation special troops were killed in a special operation of the Chechen Mujahideen in the area of village Eshelkhatoi on August 2, reports a spokesman of Military Committee of the CRI Majlisus Shura State Defence Council. 

Hizbollah fighters fought fierce battles with Israeli troops across a broad front in Lebanon’s south Tuesday, hours after the government in Israel ordered its army to punch all the way to the Litani River and hold the ground until an international peacekeeping force comes ashore.