Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.

Israel’s goal is to collapse Lebanon through triggering civil war and any move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv would ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 years of civil war.

Hezbollah was the only militant group allowed to keep its weapons after Lebanon’s civil war, given special status as a “resistance force” because Israel was still in southern Lebanon.

An attack on a bus in the Christian suburb of Beirut on April 13, 1975 helped spark the Lebanese civil war. Lebanon is still grappling with the war's legacy 50 years on, and displaying the bus as ...

But while the guns may have stopped firing at each other, those characteristics shape today's Lebanon. Despite the war officially ending and armed groups – except Hezbollah – disarming, power remains ...

Beirut became synonymous with snipers, kidnappings and car bombs. Lebanon has never fully grappled with the war's legacy, and in many ways it has never fully recovered, 50 years later.

50 years after Lebanon's civil war began, a bullet-riddled bus stands as a reminder What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon.

BEIRUT — Those who witnessed the bloody events of Lebanon’s civil war, which was triggered on April 13, 1975, had no idea that it would spark a series of crises 50 years later!

Near the front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon’s civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict ...

On April 13, 1975, members of the right-wing Christian Phalange militia machine-gunned a bus of Palestinians, leaving 27 dead, hours after assailants opened fire outside a nearby church, killing one ...