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This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising from buildings after government shelling in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Official: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Smoke rises in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday. Hezbollah commander Ali Hussein Nassif’ was killed by a roadside blast in Syria and his body was returned to Lebanon on Sunday. The bodies of other militants also have been returned to Lebanon recently. (Associated Press)

Hezbollah commander, fighters killed in Syria

Associated Press

A Syrian family walks down a street that was destroyed in an Assad-regime airstrike earlier in the day in the al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel: Syrian mortars accidentally land in Golan

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Pope Benedict XVI waves his hand upon arrival at Rafik Hariri international airport in Beirut on Sept. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

Pope appeals for peace in Lebanon visit

By Victor L. Simpson - Associated Press

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during his weekly general audience at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope: Beirut trip is Mideast peace pilgrimage

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On Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, Syrians Bassem Kharfani (left) and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Mr. Jikar's house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in a Syrian government bombardment last week that killed more than 40 people in Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

Syrian forces kill 23 rebels in town near Damascus

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

**FILE** Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen in Beirut on June 2007. (Associated Press/Hezbollah Media Office)

Hezbollah tied to seized cash

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The first Air France Airbus A380 flight prepares for landing at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia in this file photo from June 2011. The double-decker plane is 238 feet long, 79 feet tall and has a wing span of 261 feet. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Air France: Out of gas? Ask passengers to pitch in

Associated Press

Syrian security investigate the scene Aug. 15, 2012, after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a hotel in Damascus, Syria, where U.N. observers are staying. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (Associated Press)

Syria tensions spill over border to Lebanon

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian security investigate the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a Damascus hotel where U.N. observers are staying in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Saudi Arabia orders its citizens to leave Lebanon

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Sheik Ahmad Assir (left) greets supporters to his protest camp in the southern Lebanon port city of Sidon, declaring it an uprising against Hezbollah’s weapons. While the hardline Sunni cleric and his followers may not be a direct threat to Hezbollah, his willingness to publicly confront the terrorist group with strong ties to Syrian President Basher Assad underlines the dangers the group faces as it tries to retain the power and influence it has built up over 30 years. (Associated Press)

Sheik challenges Hezbollah

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

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PIPES: Stay out of the Syrian morass

By Daniel Pipes

Lebanese action film takes on Israel-Hezbollah war

By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed May 23, 2012, purports to show Syrians chanting slogans during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria are released

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Lebanese anti-Syrian regime critic Shadi Mawlawi (center), who was accused of belonging to a terrorist group, is carried May 22, 2012, on his friends' shoulders in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, as they celebrate his release from jail. (Associated Press)

Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Shadi Mawlawi (center), a Lebanese critic of the Syrian regime who was accused of belonging to a terrorist group, is carried on his friends' shoulders as they celebrate his release from jail in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Earlier this month, his arrest set off several days of clashes. (Associated Press)

Lebanese Shiites kidnapped in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed May 22, 2012, purports to show U.N. observers being welcomed in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Hezbollah appeals for calm after Syria kidnapping

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Masked Sunni gunmen hold their weapons May 21, 2012, as they attend the funeral procession of anti-Syrian regime Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid, who was shot at a Lebanese army checkpoint, at his hometown village of Beireh, Lebanon. (Associated Press)

Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon

By Ben Hubbard and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

A Sunni gunman fires in a front of burned car on Sunday, May 13, 2012, during a clash in Tripoli, Lebanon. (AP Photo)

Syrian unrest spills into Lebanon for 3rd day

By Bassem Mroue and Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

A Sunni gunman (right) points toward a possible target during clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Monday May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria conflict destabilizing Lebanon

By Andrew Bossone - Special to The Washington Times