Many of Lebanon’s domestic migrant workers are haunted by memories of the Beirut port explosion four years ago
The first-person shooter game is a low-cost spinoff of bestseller "Call of Duty" that glorifies the group’s battles in the ongoing Syrian conflict.
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/ 3 February 2009
Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.
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/ 19 December 2008
Thousands of Bahrainis marched on the streets of Manama on Friday to demand the lifting of the Israeli siege on Gaza.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a rare public appearance, welcomed five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel on Wednesday.
Osama bin Laden has plenty on his mind but he managed to pay close attention this month to the events surrounding Israel’s 60th anniversary and the parallel commemoration of the ”nakba” — the catastrophe — that the creation of the Jewish state in 1948 meant for the Palestinians.
Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah took control of the Muslim part of Beirut on Friday, tightening its grip on the city in a major blow to the United States-backed government. Security sources said at least 11 people had been killed and 30 wounded in three days of battles between pro-government gunmen and fighters loyal to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gun battles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, edging the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. Gunfire and the thump of exploding rocket-propelled grenades echoed across west Beirut.
The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the United States-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network. Hezbollah launched a new street campaign on Wednesday, piling pressure on the government after it declared the network illegal.
Atrocities in the Middle East are often carefully planned and the Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis in Jerusalem on Thursday night may have been carrying out a dual act of revenge for the recent onslaught in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of a Hezbollah commander in Damascus.
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/ 29 February 2008
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah group accused the United States on Friday of endangering regional stability by deploying a warship off Lebanon and vowed to defy what it called an act of military intimidation. Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, leads a Lebanese opposition locked in a 15-month-old power struggle with the Western-backed governing coalition.