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Crime and gangs: the path to battle for Australia’s Islamist radicals

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – The children of refugees who fled Lebanon’s civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a majority of Australian militants fighting in

Middle East: Lebanese patriarch visits disparate Israel flocks

YoopyaMay 28, 2014July 19, 20230

KUFR BIRIM, Israel (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest group of Christians, the Maronite Catholics, was making two politically charged stops Wednesday in his

Suicide bombers target Iranian centre in Beirut, kill four

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, killing at least four people

Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel

YoopyaDec 4, 2013February 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Lebanon’s Shi’ite militant Hezbollah group said on Wednesday one of its commanders was killed outside his Beirut home in an overnight attack it

Two blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 18

YoopyaNov 19, 2013February 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday killing 18 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound,

Syria rebel chieftain killed; Assad forces bomb besieged town

YoopyaNov 18, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad’s forces fired rocket and artillery barrages on a besieged mountain town near Lebanon on Monday in a push to capture

Clashes in eastern Lebanon kill at least 3

YoopyaSep 28, 2013March 31, 20240

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fighters and residents of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek exchanged fire Saturday, leaving three dead and six wounded, security officials

Al Qaeda blames Hezbollah for Lebanon bombings

YoopyaAug 24, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North African branch blamed Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah for twin bombs that hit the northern city of Tripoli on

Gunmen kill pro-Assad figure in Lebanon as Syria war spreads

YoopyaJul 18, 20130

(Reuters) – Suspected rebel gunmen assassinated a well-known supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Lebanon on Wednesday, the latest sign that Syria’s civil war

Lebanon sees sectarian clashes after Hassan killing

YoopyaOct 22, 20120

Clashes have broken out in several areas of Lebanon following Sunday’s funeral of the senior intelligence official, Wissam al-Hassan. The most serious confrontations were in