Tyre was close enough to Bazourieh that he could go and feed the 60 birds he owns. “I can’t release them. They wouldn’t survive, and besides, we just got new hatchlings,” he said. Yes, he was afraid of an Israeli attack,

This medical centre, in Burj Qalaway, southern Lebanon, was directly hit by a missile on March 13th after it had closed and the medics inside had enjoyed iftar, the evening meal to break the fast during Ramadan.

Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict. An expert discusses what Israel really hopes to achieve with its bombing campaign in Lebanon.

The Associated Press is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon, and Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants have been fighting on the ground for at least three weeks.

Lebanon’s government has broken a taboo by proposing the first direct talks with Israel in decades. But Lebanese officials say they want the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah to end first.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun expressed the state's willingness to begin direct negotiations with Israel this week, reportedly going as far as to say he was ready to move toward normalizing ties.

The decision by Lebanon’s foreign ministry has heightened fears of internal instability. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group and political party, was quick to condemn the move.

More than 125,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria this month, fleeing escalating violence and returning to a country that's still struggling to rebuild after more than a decade of civil war.