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The Arab League halted its observer mission in Syria on Saturday because of escalating violence that killed nearly 100 people the past three days, as pro-Assad forces battled dissident soldiers in a belt of suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus in the most intense fighting yet so close to the capital.
Lebanese judicial officials say a former army general has been sentenced to two years in prison for giving information to Israel.
Using cranes, bulldozers and their bare hands, Lebanese rescue workers pulled bodies from the rubble of a collapsed five-story residential building Monday, bringing the death toll to 25, officials said.
At least 14 people were killed when multiple explosive devices struck a police truck transporting prisoners in a tense area of northwestern Syria on Saturday, the country's state-run news agency and an opposition group said.
Activists say Syrian troops have opened fire on demonstrators holding sit-ins in two parts of the country, killing one and wounding at least 20.
Lebanese security officials say Syrian troops opened fire at a car that crossed illegally into northern Lebanon, killing three Lebanese men.
Lebanese security officials say an American man found dead in a remote mountainous area fell while climbing.
Twin suicide car bombs blasted outside two buildings of Syria's powerful intelligence agencies Friday, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said, in the first such attacks since the country was thrown into turmoil by the 9-month-old uprising against the rule of President Bashar Assad.
A rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel fell short, wounding a Lebanese woman, officials said Monday.
Syrian forces killed at least six people — including two children — as they fired on anti-government demonstrations across the country on Friday, activists said.
The leader of Hezbollah sought to reassure Lebanon on Thursday that he has no interest in stirring up trouble over an international investigation that has targeted members of his Shiite militant group.
Hours of intense shooting and clashes across Syria killed at least four people Friday and wounded dozens more — including an 11-year-old girl who was struck by stray bullets that whizzed across the border into Lebanon, activists and security officials said.
A bomb exploded Wednesday at a hotel frequented by U.N. staffers in southern Lebanon, causing damage but no casualties, a Lebanese security official said.
A former Syrian vice president who became one of the country's most prominent dissidents was kidnapped in Lebanon five months ago while visiting his daughter and is believed to be secretly imprisoned by the Syrian regime as it tries to crush a 7-month-old uprising, his daughter and Lebanese police said.
Syrian gunmen attacked a renowned anti-regime cartoonist early Thursday in Damascus and left him bleeding along the side of a road, human rights activists said.
Five prisoners escaped a high-security Lebanese prison Saturday by scaling down the building's walls with bed sheets before mixing with visiting relatives and walking out of the compound with them, the interior minister said.
Syrian President Bashar Assad told the United Nations chief that military operations in his country have ended, even as activists said Thursday that security forces shot dead 18 people nationwide and intense shooting erupted in the flashpoint city of Latakia.
A bomb went off in a north Beirut suburb Thursday, killing two people and damaging several cars, including one belonging to a judge, security officials said.
Ibrahim Qashoush's lyrics moved thousands of protesters in Syria who sang his jaunty verses at rallies, telling President Bashar Assad, "Time to leave." So when his body was dumped in the river flowing through his hometown, his killers added an obvious message: His throat was carved out.
Amnesty International says it fears dozens of Syrian detainees are being tortured after mass arrests outside the capital, Damascus.
The son of assassinated Prime Minister Rafik Hariri urged Lebanon to arrest four Hezbollah members accused in his father's 2005 murder and warned that the country will "will pay the price" if the militant group protects the men.
A Syrian boxer who won a medal at the 2004 Olympics was injured along with at least 20 others Monday as President Bashar Assad's regime swept through several cities and towns to crush a pro-democracy uprising, activists said.
Hezbollah's leader vowed Saturday never to turn over four members of his Shiite militant group who have been indicted in the 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, saying in a defiant speech that "even in 300 years" authorities will not be able to touch them.
Syrian activists on Thursday released footage of the body of a 15-year-old boy they said was tortured by security forces, nearly a week after anti-government protesters galvanized by another teen's death turned out by the thousands.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, buffeted by an uprising against his regime and growing international isolation, is turning to a reliable distraction: archenemy Israel.
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