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  • Israel set to agree to international force

    An injured elderly woman is taken to hospital after the latest Hizbullah missile strike on Haifa yesterday. Israel's announcement that it would support the deployment of a temporary international force in south Lebanon may have signalled that diplomatic efforts to end the crisis had gone up a gear, but it has also raised speculation over whether Israel was beginning to scale back the goals it set when it launched its offensive against Hizbullah 12 days ago. p

  • Day of carnage as Maliki prepares to visit US

    IRAQ: Car bombs killed at least 62 Iraqis yesterday as the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, prepared for a White House visit expected to focus on halting what many see as Iraq's accelerating slide toward all-out sectarian civil war. p

  • Kosovo's leaders to push for independence in talks

    KOSOVO: Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders will push for independence today at their first face-to-face meeting with Serbia's top officials since Nato bombing forced Belgrade's troops to withdraw from the region in 1999. p
Middle East Crisis

  • Lebanese urged to flee as Israel prepares for big ground offensive

    Israeli forces appear ready to launch significant ground operations in the Tyre area of south Lebanon from which Hizbullah fighters continued to launch rocket salvoes against northern Israel. p

  • US rejects talks offer and seeks end to Syrian ties with Hizbullah

    The United States has played down suggestions that Syria could be isolated from Iran and persuaded to abandon its support for Hizbullah. US ambassador to the UN John Bolton yesterday dismissed Syria's offer of direct talks on the Middle East conflict, which some US analysts view as an opportunity to divide Damascus and Tehran. p

  • Barrage of rocket attacks kills two in Haifa

    Scores of Hizbullah rockets slammed into northern Israeli towns yesterday, killing two people and wounding 70, medics and the army said. p

  • Alarmed Saudis spend massive sums on arms

    Saudi Arabia is expanding its military arsenal to counter what it sees as Iran's growing influence in a region convulsed by violence. p

  • Doctors say Sharon's condition has deteriorated

    The condition of Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who masterminded the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, has deteriorated, doctors said yesterday. p

  • Water, food in short supply as refugees seek safety in the hills

    All week long they came, wearily making their way up the winding mountain road that leads to the village of Kayfoun. p

  • Syrians open homes to fleeing Lebanese

    Maria Shomeen sits on a light blue mattress and adjusts the folds in her skirt. Around her, straining to speak, are blue-eyed girls and sullen teenage boys. The mother of three from Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley has spent the last eight days living with four other families in a two-bedroom flat in south Damascus. p

  • Israel sending propaganda texts to mobile phones

    Israel is directing a multimedia propaganda campaign at the besieged people of southern Lebanon as it battles with Hizbullah. p

  • Unique chance to rid Lebanon of Hizbullah

    Opinion: There is crisis and there is opportunity. Amid the general wringing of hands over the seemingly endless and escalating Israel-Hizbullah fighting, everyone asks: where will it end? The answer, blindingly clear, begins with understanding that this crisis represents a rare, perhaps irreproducible, opportunity. p
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