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Lebanese gather at the site of a car bomb explosion in a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group at the southern suburb of Beirut Thursday. (Associated Press)

Bombings, killing in Lebanon become common as Syrian fighting expands

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

State Department adds two to terrorist list, notes al Qaeda splits

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters (not pictured) in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, Syria, northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Heavy fighting flared as government troops tried to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al Qaeda, from the hilltop enclave that they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. adds al Qaeda-linked Lebanon militant leader to global terrorist list

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Lebanon puts army in control of Tripoli

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

BLOODSHED: Lebanese men carry the body of a victim of explosions that struck near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, in a stronghold of Hezbollah. (Associated Press)

Obama sees Beirut terrorist attack as common ground with Iran in nuclear talks

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Displaced Syrian children wait outside their tents for the arrival of French President Francois Hollande's companion, Valerie Trierweiler, during her visit to one of the refugee camps at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

As fighting flares, Syrians pour into Lebanon

By Diaa Hadid and Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

A Syrian woman carries buckets to fill with water at a refugee camp at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. More than 812,000 Syrians in Lebanon are urban refugees, who live not in camps but in cities and towns. (Associated Press)

Syrian war refugees find crowds, crime, contagion at camps

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

PIPES: Cyprus rides a troubled sea of oil and gas opportunity

By Daniel Pipes

Ed Ayers, a former Marine, of Scranton, Pa., pauses at the Beirut Bombing Memorial in Jacksonville, N.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, the 30th anniversary of a terrorist bombing that killed 241 U.S. service members. Mr. Ayers, who did two tours in Lebanon, said the peacekeeping mission there was worth it, but "I wish it was handled differently." (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Marine commandant, survivors remember 1983 Beirut blast

By Allen Breed and Emery P. Dalesio - Associated Press

Inside the Ring: Syria, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hezbollah’s Shebaa Farms pretext

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Hezbollah’

By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2013. Lawmakers are returning a week early from recess for the first public hearing about U.S. plans for military action to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad as President Obama seeks to convince skeptical Americans and their representatives to act following the deadly gas attack outside Damascus. (Associated Press)

State Department orders diplomats to leave Lebanon

Associated Press

** FILE ** President Obama speaks during a ceremony to award U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty M. Carter the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Aug. 26, 2013, at the White House. (Associated Press)

Take your pick: Syria is a target-rich environment for U.S. missiles

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Lebanese Army soldier stands guard in front of damaged cars at the site of a car bomb explosion outside of the Al-Taqwa mosque, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Suspect in double mosque bombings in Lebanon arrested

Associated Press

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, sits in a meeting at the presidency office, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Hasan Rouhani as president Saturday, allowing the moderate cleric to take charge of a country weakened by economic sanctions over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s new Defense minister: Hezbollah chief who planned 1983 Marine barracks attack

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Syrian rebel claims Bashar Assad gave weapons to Hezbollah

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times