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The talks in Paris brokered by the United States were the latest effort to reduce tensions between the two longstanding foes, ...
Through Google Earth, this video maps the Israeli advance into Syrian-controlled territory day by day. Beginning with the ...
Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...
Israeli PM says he is 'very' connected to the expansionist vision encompassing parts of Palestine and several Arab states ...
An inquiry found that members of the new government’s forces took part in killing Syrian civilians during sectarian fighting ...
Israel has drawn up a map of a buffer zone in southern Lebanon, the first time it has done so since the ceasefire agreement ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. special envoy to Lebanon said Monday that his team would discuss the long-term cessation of ...
Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious minorities, including the Druze.
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Factions Pour Fuel to the Fire of Regional Maps

Can a map, no matter how large, contain two armies, two authorities and two “states”? Is obligatory coexistence just a form of truce until one army succeeds in defeating the other? Is a clash ...
An NBC News analysis of satellite imagery and social media videos reveals Israel's network of fortifications outside its borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza.
A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in ...