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, …