Lebanon Monitor

Kidnapping threatens Lebanese stability - Financial Times

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:17:37 +0000

Kidnapping threatens Lebanese stability
Financial Times
Fears are mounting that the kidnap of 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Syria last week threatens to destabilise Lebanon if Lebanese Shia seek revenge attacks and militant Shia group Hizbollah fails to contain the violence. Hopes that the pilgrims would be ...

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Israeli jets in Lebanese air - The Voice of Russia

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:11:05 +0000

Israeli jets in Lebanese air
The Voice of Russia
Israeli jets have violated Lebanon's airspace, local media report. They flew over two border areas at low altitudes and scared the locals. The border area of the Litani river where UN peacekeepers are deployed is on a special alert in the run-up to the ...

Russia 'pushing' Syria into civil war – Moscow, Washington trade diplomatic ... - Kuwait Times

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:00:09 +0000

Kuwait Times

Russia 'pushing' Syria into civil war – Moscow, Washington trade diplomatic ...
Kuwait Times
TRIPOLI: A Syrian injured man who lost his leg from the Syrian forces shelling at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs Province, covers his face for fear of reprisal on his family by the Syrian regime as he wears his prosthetic leg at a hospital in Tripoli, ...

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UN chief warns Syria; regime again shells Houla - Deseret News

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:30:47 +0000

Deseret News

UN chief warns Syria; regime again shells Houla
Deseret News
By Bassem Mroue AP A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer, left, treats a Syrian injured man who was shot in his leg by the Syrian border guard when he was crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon, is seen on the ground, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border ...

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Syria: anti-government groups committed Houla massacre | The Republic - The Republic

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:22:03 +0000

Syria: anti-government groups committed Houla massacre | The Republic
The Republic
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Thursday a preliminary investigation showed that anti-government armed groups committed a massacre last week in Houla, in which 108 people were killed, with the aim of encouraging foreign military intervention against ...

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Third Lebanese kidnapped on Syria border: state media - Ahram Online

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:14:41 +0000

Third Lebanese kidnapped on Syria border: state media
Ahram Online
A Lebanese man was kidnapped on Thursday in the eastern Arsal region, on the border with Syria, Lebanese state media and a military source said, a day after two others were seized along the same frontier. "Yehia Mohammad al-Fliti, from Arsal, ...

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Lebanese Foreign Minister: Hostages 'Certainly Alive' - Al-Monitor

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:50:32 +0000

Lebanese Foreign Minister: Hostages 'Certainly Alive'
Al-Monitor
On May 29, Lebanese newspaper As-Safir learned from an official Lebanese source that the abductors began monitoring their 11 Lebanese hostages in Lebanon before they traveled to Iran through Syria and Turkey. However, they deliberately kidnapped them ...

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11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre - WDAY

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:39:54 +0000

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre
WDAY
BEIRUT (AP) — When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

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