TYRE, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes have attacked the Lebanese Red Cross repeatedly, members of the medical aid group say. "The night of July 23, we were called to rescue a family whose home was bombed," Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic with the Lebanese...
SIDON, Lebanon - The Israeli attack on Qana has taken the biggest toll of the war, but it is only one of countless lethal attacks on civilians in Lebanon. Large numbers fled the south after the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been...
Byblos, Lebanon – Israeli air strikes on an electricity plant have released oil that has now spread over much of Lebanon's coastline. More than 15,000 barrels of oil have hit the coast after the bombing of five of six storage tanks at the plant in the coastal...
BEIRUT - Lebanese doctors, aid workers, and refugees are all reporting that the official number of dead in Lebanon is far lower than the actual. "I think that the real number is at least 750 dead so far," Dr. Bachir el-Sham at the Complex Hospital in Sidon...
BEIRUT - Amid the rapidly worsening situation in Lebanon, the government finds itself too weak and divided to deal either with Israel or Hezbollah. In turmoil since the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005, the government of this tiny...
BEIRUT - The continuing Israeli bombing of south Lebanon and south Beirut might just have strengthened the Hezbollah. The bombings appear particularly to have strengthened the hand of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the charismatic Hezbollah leader. Hezbollah has over the...
BEIRUT - Among hundreds of thousands of refugees scattered across city parks, schools, and abandoned buildings in Beirut, new and chilling words have been doing the rounds. A senior Israeli air force official announced on Israeli army radio that "Army chief of...
BEIRUT - About 55 percent of all casualties at the Beirut Government University Hospital are children of 15 years of age or less, hospital records show. "This is worse than during the Lebanese civil war," Bilal Masri, assistant director of the hospital, one...
BEIRUT - Much of Beirut is a devastated city: infrastructure in many areas lies in a shambles after the Israeli bombing. But the Lebanese are also feeling devastated. "Does our country not have the right to move forward like other democracies?" asks Nidal...
DAMASCUS – The daily Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and the floods of refugees pouring in have set off a wave of anger through Syria. "How can people watch this destruction in Lebanon and do nothing," Hassan Majed Ali, president of the Union of Engineers in...
