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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against escalating a fraught situation in Syria after Israel struck targets near Damascus on Sunday, targeting what its officials said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. Israeli officials said the raid, the second in 48 hours, was not connected to Syria’s civil war. It was aimed, rather, at stopping Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel followed through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli warplanes have targeted a Syrian weapons shipment headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, media quoted US officials as saying on Saturday, as Sunnis were fleeing a city for fear of a massacre. The news came as US President Barack Obama, under mounting criticism that he has allowed Bashar al-Assad’s regime to cross his own declared “red line” on using chemical weapons, came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British millionaire was on Thursday jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million (HK$604 million) from selling the devices, which prosecutors said were based on a novelty golf ball finder and had no scientific basis. Last week, a jury at London’s Old Bailey found the 57-year-old guilty of three counts of fraud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ISABEL KERSHNER, on April 25th, 2013 The Israeli military said it felled the drone as it was flying south from Lebanon along the Mediterranean coast.
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Friday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot. The UN Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, stopped food deliveries after dozens of Gazans forced their way into the field office on Thursday, demanding reinstatement of a monthly cash allowance to poor families which was halted from April 1 due to budget cuts. “This is an unjustified step from UNRWA,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on April 3rd, 2013 Lebanon’s official news agency says a Syrian jet has fired a missile that slammed into a house on the outskirts of a Lebanese border town.
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian opposition leaders are to address an annual summit of the Arab League for the first time in Qatar on Tuesday, but the bloc’s members remain divided over whether to give them Damascus’s vacant seat. The Qatari hosts are vocal champions of the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and said leaders of the armed opposition would definitely be joining Arab heads of state in Doha. But they did not specify whether the Syrian National Coalition would be given Syria’s seat which has been vacant since its suspension from the 22-member bloc in November 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> European countries yesterday condemned the murder of seven foreign hostages being held by Islamist extremists in northern Nigeria, the worst such incident to hit the turbulent West African nation in decades. Britain and Italy said all seven of those taken from northern Bauchi state on February 16 were killed by the Ansaru group. Greece also confirmed one of its citizens was killed, while Lebanon did not comment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The number of Syrians who have fled their country since a deadly civil conflict erupted two years ago has hit one million, the UN’s refugee agency said Wednesday. “With a million people in flight, millions more displaced internally, and thousands of people continuing to cross the border every day, Syria is spiralling towards full-scale disaster,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When a would-be assassin disguised as a postman shot at – and just missed – the head of Lars Hedegaard, an anti-Islam polemicist and former newspaper editor, last month, a cloud of suspicion immediately fell on Denmark’s Muslim minority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Syrian National Coalition decided to boycott talks with world powers after announcing plans to form a government to run “liberated areas” of Syria, in what analysts said was a bid to boost its credibility and win more support from the international community. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD, on February 24th, 2013 An influx of needy Syrians, seeming to fill Lebanon’s every nook and cranny, is heightening sectarian tensions in a nation haunted by refugee crises and loath to act.
Continue reading Syrian Flood Into Lebanon Stirs Fear of Looming Disaster
By By NICHOLAS KULISH and MATTHEW BRUNWASSER, on February 5th, 2013 The finding could have wide-reaching repercussions for Europe’s détente with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is an influential force in Middle East politics.
Continue reading Bulgaria Implicates Hezbollah in Deadly Israeli Bus Blast
By , on January 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria warned yesterday of a possible “surprise” response to Israel’s attack on its territory and Russia condemned the air strike as an unprovoked violation of international law. Damascus could take “a surprise decision to respond to the aggression of the Israeli warplanes”, Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali said a day after Israel struck against Syria. “Syria is engaged in defending its sovereignty and its land.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Israeli strike on Syrian convoy draws threat, fury
By By ISABEL KERSHNER MICHAEL R. GORDON and RICK GLADSTONE, on January 30th, 2013 Israel carried out a strike deep inside Syria, American officials reported, saying they believed the target was a convoy carrying antiaircraft weapons meant for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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By , on January 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The first major prisoner swap in Syria’s conflict took place on Wednesday with rebels freeing 48 Iranians in exchange for more than 2,000 regime detainees in a drawn-out deal with Damascus reportedly brokered by Turkey, Qatar and Iran. The unprecedented exchange came to light ahead of trilateral talks in Geneva on Friday between Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint UN-Arab League envoy tasked with trying to quell Syria’s 21 months of violence, and US and Russian officials. But the developments offered no immediate respite from the killing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 4th, 2013 
Film star Brigitte Bardot threatens to follow Gerard Depardieu and apply for Russia citizenship unless France saves two elephants from death.
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By By HWAIDA SAAD ANNE BARNARD and CHRISTINE HAUSER, on January 3rd, 2013 Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Shiite militant movement in Lebanon, also wants the country to open its border to refugees to avoid further bloodshed.
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By , on December 28th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to US president Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the “only person” who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed on Friday. Newly declassified files from 1982 lift the lid on contacts between the two leaders over the crisis and reveal the extent of the pressure Thatcher felt she was under when Argentina invaded the remote South Atlantic archipelago to reclaim what it said was its sovereign territory, triggering a 10-week war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Israel walks fine line with Syria raids
<!– google_ad_section_start –> With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Israel walks fine line with Syria raids
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