OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — After nine days of bombing Lebanon, Israel has begun to doubt the effectiveness of an offensive that has failed to stop Hizbollah fire, eliminate its leaders or push fighters back from the border.

GAZA CITY (AP) — Israeli forces killed three people and wounded six in the Gaza Strip, officials said Thursday,

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a US-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed on Thursday.