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Syrian government forces and their Hezbollah allies from Lebanon pounded rebels yesterday in an offensive to retake the strategic city of Al-Qusair, as the country’s civil war escalates into a regional conflict.
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Syrian Prime Minister Wael al- Halaqi survived a bomb explosion that killed at least six people as his convoy traveled through Damascus, state television said.
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Iran pressed Hezbollah fighters to join the civil war in Syria to bolster President Bashar al- Assad’s armed struggle, according to Sobhi al-Tofaili, a disaffected former leader of the militant group.
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The bomb plot had all the hallmarks of a spy thriller: a former Lebanese politician gets caught with explosives by an informant using a camera-equipped pen and triggers a dawn raid by police.
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Mustapha Hassan, a farmer in the Lebanese village of Noura al-Tahta next to the border with Syria, is not willing to risk his life for his crops.
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Syria’s ambassador to Iraq defected and joined the opposition, saying the government of President Bashar al-Assad has turned the ruling Baath party into “an instrument to kill people.”
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Lebanese opposition leaders said the new cabinet formed by billionaire Najib Mikati may exacerbate tensions between followers of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri , and Hezbollah and its allies who now dominate the government.
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Five years after the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri , his son’s government of national unity has sought to stabilize a country torn for decades by sectarian war. The search for Hariri’s killers puts that goal at risk.
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The National Football League is teaming with Providence Equity Partners to invest $300 million in private sports and entertainment-related media and technology companies.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he pushes to revive diplomatic efforts to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
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