BAGHDAD (CNN) — Iraq’s prime minister, whose country is mired in Sunni-Shiite sectarian fighting and a relentless insurgent violence, wants to put another conflict on his busy agenda next week when he meets with the Bush administration and other officials — Lebanon.

BEIRUT (CNN) — The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. said on Saturday one of its employees was killed and another was wounded in the Israeli airstrikes on transmission towers. The LBC confirmed that Suleiman Shidiyaq was killed on the transmission tower in Fatqa and Charbel Aqiqi was injured in another air strike …

(CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces said about 70 rockets hit Israel on Saturday, projectiles fired by Hezbollah militants fighting the Jewish state.