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VIDEO: Syria unrest fuels Lebanon fears

Friday, May 25th, 2012

The bloodshed in Syria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Lebanon, fuelling fears of a return to the sectarian violence seen the past.

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Protesters Are Attacked at Aleppo University in Syria

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The crackdown on the demonstration at Aleppo University came less than a week after it had reopened following a raid by security forces that left at least four students dead.

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Refugees Say Neighbor Shoots Neighbor in Syrian Crackdown

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The refugees offered a rare witness account of the unfolding tumult in western Syria as an intensive bombardment of communities continues.

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Syria Reportedly Accepts Peace Plan as Clashes Erupt Near Lebanon

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Fighting was reported to have broken out on the border of northeast Lebanon on Tuesday between Syrian government troops and rebels who have taken refuge there, reports said.

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Syria accepts Annan’s peace plan, but violence persists

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

BEIRUT — Syria’s government has accepted a U.N. plan to forge a political solution to the bloody uprising engulfing the country, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, said Tuesday, even as continuing violence threatened to spill into neighboring Lebanon. Read full article > >

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Thai Police in Bangkok Seize Bomb-Making Material

Monday, January 16th, 2012

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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Hezbollah’s Winter

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

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

Hezbollah claims to release names of CIA officers in Lebanon

Monday, December 12th, 2011

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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Roadside bomb wounds 5 French peacekeepers in south Lebanon

Friday, December 9th, 2011

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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Lebanon blast injures UN troops

Friday, December 9th, 2011

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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Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

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

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

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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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Syria Accused of Kidnapping 4 in Lebanon

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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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Lebanese Police Accuse Syria in Kidnapping of Dissidents

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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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Syrian troops firing machine guns from tanks storm restive town

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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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