Officials were led to a commercial building outside Bangkok by a Lebanese man whom authorities accuse of being part of a group planning violence.

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This article, written by Joyce Karam, appeared on The Majalla on December 19, 2011 How is the escalating conflict in Syria affecting Hezbollah’s position and standing inside Lebanon and in the region?

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Hezbollah’s Winter

Escalating its confrontation with the CIA, the militant organization Hezbollah released what it said were the names of agency officers working in Lebanon in a television broadcast that aired there last week. The exposure creates new security risks for CIA officers in a country where American espionage operations had already been damaged by Hezbollah’s capture of a group of agency-paid informants . Read full article > >

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Hezbollah claims to release names of CIA officers in Lebanon

BEIRUT — A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said. This was the third bombing this year targeting the international force known as UNIFIL, which is deployed to keep the peace along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Read full article > >

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Roadside bomb wounds 5 French peacekeepers in south Lebanon

At least five UN peacekeepers and a Lebanese civilian have been injured by a bomb blast in southern Lebanon, security officials say.

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Several rockets fired from southern Lebanon landed in northern Israel, the Israeli army says, but no casualties are reported.

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Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel

SERHANIYEH, Lebanon — Syria is planting landmines along parts of the country’s border with Lebanon as refugees stream out of the country to escape the crackdown on anti-government protests, officials and witnesses said Tuesday. A Syrian man whose foot had to be amputated after he stepped on a mine just across from the Lebanese village of Irsal on Sunday was the first known victim of the mines, according to a doctor at a hospital in Lebanon where the man was brought for treatment. He asked that his name not be published out of fear of repercussions by authorities because of the sensitivity of the case. Read full article > >

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APNewsBreak: Officials and witnesses say Damascus planting landmines on Lebanon border

Lebanon’s police said Syria was behind the abductions of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon, and on Tuesday a Syrian official was quoted saying troops had begun to sow landmines along their border with Lebanon.

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Syria Accused of Kidnapping 4 in Lebanon

Lebanon’s police have accused Syria of orchestrating the abductions of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon, which has become a haven for them during the antigovernment uprising.

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Lebanese Police Accuse Syria in Kidnapping of Dissidents

BEIRUT — Syrian troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad, activists said. The offensive in Rastan, located just north of the central city of Homs and on the highway to Turkey, began overnight and continued through the morning, leaving at least 20 people wounded, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Read full article > >

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Syrian troops firing machine guns from tanks storm restive town

The State Department is mandated by Congress to provide an annual report assessing global terrorism trends and events of the previous year. Country Reports on Terrorism 2010 was released last Thursday….. and was received with a collective yawn. The report is woefully out-of-date due to its January 1 to December 31 time constraint (the Arab Spring is barely mentioned, as it was just getting started in December, and Osama bin Laden’s death isn’t within the report’s purview either). There are plenty of repeats from previous years: Iran is still the “most active” state sponsor of terror, Hezbollah is still a source of instability for Lebanon and the region, and al-Qaeda is still “the preeminent terrorist threat to the United States.”

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Which al-Qaeda Should we be Worried About?

In early 1982 the Syrian government, under the control of then President Hafez al-Assad, carried out a military operation against its own citizens in the city of Hama. In 2011, now under the control of Hafez’s son, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian government is again conducting military operations against its people. Estimates of the death toll differ, but Syrian human rights organizations put the number near, or over, 2,000. Unlike 1982, however, Syria does not have the Soviet Union as superpower patron state to protect it. It is faced with an Iraq no longer controlled by the Ba’ath party, a Lebanon struggling to shrug off Damascus’s authority, and a heavily militarized Israel controlled by a hawkish right wing government. Why then, is the world seemingly standing by as unarmed civilians challenge tanks in the streets of Syria?

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Weathering a Front of the Arab Spring

A U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the killing of a former Lebanese leader released its indictment against members of Hezbollah named in the killing.

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Indictment in Hariri Assassination Is Published

A UN-backed tribunal publishes charges against four suspects in the assassination of Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri, saying it has enough evidence to try them.

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Trial ordered for Hariri suspects

MOUNT GRETNA, Pa. — A Pennsylvania Turnpike spokesman says rescue crews freed a woman trapped when a Greyhound bus overturned on the interstate, injuring about two dozen people. Turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo said the westbound bus flipped on its side at about 6 a.m. Saturday at milepost 267, one mile east of the Lebanon-Lancaster exit. DeFebo says 20 to 25 injuries were reported, and the entrapped woman was taken to a nearby hospital. He said his earlier report that some victims were flown out was incorrect. Read full article > >

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Officials: Bus overturns on Pennsylvania Turnpike near Lancaster; about 2 dozen injured