The prosecution in a trial of 26 alleged Hezbollah members charged with planning attacks in Egypt demanded the death sentence on Tuesday, a judicial source said. The prosecutor made the request during a hearing at the emergency state security court trying the high-profile case, which has damaged relations between Egypt and the powerful Lebanese Shiite militant group. He called for ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday sought to calm regional nerves over fears of an imminent conflict with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas by saying Israel sought peace with its neighbors. In an unusual move, Netanyahu's office issued a statement quoting him saying that the Jewish state was not planning any imminent attack on Lebanon, from where Hezbollah ...

Israel is heading toward a new war with Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, a cabinet minister warned Saturday in remarks carried by military radio and the popular Ynet news website. "We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north but I don't know when it will happen, just as we did not know when the second Lebanon war ...

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said at the weekend he was close to reconciling with former arch-foe Syria and dismissed criticism of his latest political about-turn. "I believe that three-quarters of the road to Syria has opened up and what remains is the final gesture which depends on the right moment," said Jumblatt in an interview with AFP at his ...