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Through Google Earth, this video maps the Israeli advance into Syrian-controlled territory day by day. Beginning with the ...
A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in ...
Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) – Syria has a long and tumultuous history of meddling into Lebanese affairs. For much of the past 30 years, the seven-times-smaller Lebanon has lived under Syrian ...
The defense ministers of Syria and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire on Monday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, after cross-border attacks left 10 dead and more than 50 wounded.
MLEETA, Lebanon – On a hill a short drive from Lebanon’s border with Israel, bright yellow and green flags lead to a museum whose theater shows footage of troops training or in combat against ...
The longer the war in Syria goes on, the stronger the sectarian calculus in Lebanon will become. Last year, I spent a couple of days tagging along with a mid-level Hezbollah fighter.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting erupted overnight into Monday along the border with Lebanon, Syria's state media said. This came after the Syrian interim government accused militants from Lebanon's ...
(CNN) — The defense ministers of Syria and Lebanon agreed to a cease-fire on Monday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, after cross-border attacks left 10 dead and more than 50 wounded.
The talks in Paris brokered by the United States were the latest effort to reduce tensions between the two longstanding foes, ...
Assad’s legacy With Hezbollah’s defeat in Lebanon and the fall of the Syrian regime, the “Iranization” of the region is, at the very least, stalled.
A convoy of buses carry Syrian refugees who return home from Lebanon, arrive at the Syrian border crossing point, in Jdeidet Yabous, Syria, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Credit: AP/Omar Sanadiki ...