MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russia has condemned the Israeli aggression on the civilian infrastructures in Lebanon and Gaza Strip, asserting strong support to Lebanon’s sovereignty and integrity.

Hezbollah has said that it has captured two Israeli soldiers in attacks from Lebanon on enemy border posts. The Lebanese group said on Wednesday that it had captured the pair to secure the release of detainees held in Israeli prisons.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi here Thursday condemned Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and destruction of Lebanese infrastructure.

Israeli air stirkes in Lebanon have killed 27 civilians and forced the closure of Beirut’s international airport. An Israeli woman was also killed after Hezbollah fired rockets across the border with Israel into the northern town of Nahariya.   The closure of the new Rafiq Hariri airport on Thursday came …

BEIRUT, (SANA)- Lebanese al-Manar TV announced on Thursday that the Israeli shelling which targeted a branch station in Southern Beirut Area caused material damage and three workers were injured.

The representative of Military Council of State Defense Council Majlisul Shura of CRI Abu Umar has reported to Kavkaz Center news agency that the vice-president of CRI, the Military Amir of Mujahideen of Caucasus, Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris became a Shaheed (insha Allah).

A Tu-134 aircraft carrying Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Masorin has crashed in Ukraine’s Crimea Region. Several navy officers suffered burns as a fire broke out on the plane.

Occupation command reports of death of Chechen Republic Ichkeria’s vice-president Shamil Basayev. There no details have been reported.

Feared by his people, his neighbours and the West, Russia’s President Putin is ruthlessly rebuilding the Soviet Empire. The tragedy, as he hosts his country’s first ever G8 summit this week, is that we are letting it happen.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — By wasting little time withdrawing troops from northern Gaza over the weekend after a two-day operation, Israel made clear it did not want to get bogged down in territory it quit less than a year ago.