Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 10:15
Tensions between the neighbouring areas date back to Lebanon`s 1975-1990 civil war but have been exacerbated by the conflict across the border in Syria.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 16:32
The death toll from a government helicopter strike on a rebel-held town near the northern city of Aleppo has risen to 26 people including four children, said Syrian activists.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 13:18
Prime Minister Wael Halki said on Saturday Syrian government forces were winning the war with rebels and would not rest while a single enemy fighter remained at large.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 01:11
India on Saturday asserted that it would not rest till the Sri Lanka implemented the 13th amendment and insisted on an "elaborate, independent and genuine probe" acceptable to the international community into the `genocide` by that government during 2009 civil war.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 13:31
Sri Lankan today announced that it will conduct a nation-wide survey from tomorrow to compile a death toll and assess property damage during the country`s nearly three-decades-long civil war.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 13:55
For the first time in nearly three years of civil war that has been plaguing the country, Syrian government and the opposition will meet on the negotiating table on January 22 in Geneva, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 10:11
The Syrian market is facing considerable shortage of some drugs as most pharmaceutical laboratories in northern Syria are out of service, Xinhua reported Sunday.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 00:34
Libya`s deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Nuh was abducted on Sunday in Tripoli, a security official said.
Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 15:44
A Syrian delegation will visit Moscow on November 18 for talks on preparations for the Geneva II peace conference on Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 13:13
Insisting that there is "no military solution" to the conflict in Syria, a top US administration official said that a political solution will not emerge spontaneously in the war-torn country.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 16:16
Guatemalan siblings who lost contact during the country`s turbulent 1960-1996 civil strife have been reunited 31 years later, with some help from Facebook.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 14:29
The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria has said no peace conference will be possible without the Syrian opposition, as the United Nations warned of rising malnutrition among children trapped in battle zones.
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