DAMASCUS (AFP) — When Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah launched “Operation Kept Promise” the day after his fighters captured two Israeli soldiers to use in a prisoner swap, little did he know the same name would be bestowed on a newborn refugee girl two weeks later in Damascus.

UNITED NATIONS — The Israeli air strike on the Lebanese town of Qana may be part of a larger pattern of violations of international law in the war between Israel and Hizbollah, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report.

TYRE — In his spacious sun-splashed apartment in Tyre’s old city, surrounded by a dozen grandchildren and feasting on generous portions of lamb, Tawfiq Bahr, like many of his Shiite brethren, has seen his lot improve since his youth.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister said as the Zionist regime is completely alien to the UN resolution and other international norms, conscientious people of the world expect an international fact-finding commission to be established to take those responsible for these crimes to an international tribunal.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Hezbollah’s representative to Tehran said that the new Middle-East would be formed by the resistance of the Lebanese nation and solidarity of Muslims and Arabs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani described the UNSC resolution on Iran’s nuclear case as cruel and stressed that the measure has discredited the United Nations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Seyed Yahya Rahim Safavi said there are well-established indications that the US Great Middle-East Plan has come to failure. Addressing a general convention

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on the unions of Muslim and Arab Parliaments and all his colleagues worldwide to make every effort to set Palestinian Parliament Speaker free. In a message released on Sunday afternoon,

Pakistan‘s former army chief predicts all Muslim countries will have Islamic gov’ts   Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, (Ret’d) Gen Aslam Beg, has predicted that pure Islamic governments would emerge in almost all Islamic countries, including Pakistan, after some years.   He said that dictators of Islamic states are …

Already this year, the number of non-Mexican apprehensions has far outpaced last year’s total in just eight months. And while they are still a relatively small percentage compared with the number of illegal Mexicans, critics say the federal government’s policy in dealing with them is far more dangerous.