Lebanon, PA
US Secretary of State John Kerry checks his watch as he arrives at the Royal Palace for a meeting with Jordan's King on May 22, 2013 in the Jordanian capital Amman. Backers of the Syrian uprising are meeting in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the brutal two-year conflict escalates close to the border with Lebanon. Eleven top diplomats from Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States are attending the meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group.
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A $32 million contribution by the United States to United Nations aid agencies will provide urgently needed assistance to thousands of refugees from Syria, as well as their hosting communities in Lebanon
Mr. Mills also expressed the United States’ concern over Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria, fighting on behalf of the Assad regime, which risks drawing Lebanon into the conflict and is counter to the Lebanese government’s policies
Four years later, Thomas told Fleischer’s successor, Tony Snow, that the United States ‘could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon’ by Israel, but instead had ‘gone for collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine.’ Snow tartly thanked her for ‘the Hezbollah view.’More quotes »
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Rubin: Israel steps up to the plate in Syria
Israeli overflights during the previous 48 hours, suggesting the warplanes may have struck their target from Lebanese airspace."Israeli planes reportedly struck again Sunday outside Damascus .So much for the suggestion by critics of stronger U.S. action that Read more »
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Bromund: Barack Obama's Syrian 'red line' comes back to trip him
would face bitter diplomatic opposition from Russia. While Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) have called for greater U.S. involvement in Syria, broader support is lacking. Fantasies about covert U.S. missions to round Read more »
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Raghida Dergham: Western Powers Appease the Iranian Regime
of Tehran's - as in enabling its role in Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon - while at others, Washington, London, and Paris seem satisfied with the mutual carnage and attrition in the Syrian quagmire, between Shias and Sunnis, and happy to ward 5/24/13 from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Fears of Syrian war spilling into Lebanon
by the country's army to halt an outbreak of fighting. "The United States is deeply concerned about the situation in Lebanon," state department deputy spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said. Clashes have erupted in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli between 5/24/13 from News24 Read more »
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US: Hezbollah involvement in Syria threatens Lebanon's stability
reminder that the conflict in Syria poses an increasingly dangerous threat to Lebanon’s stability and security," the State Department said in a statement. The Americans warned that Hezbollah leaders’ decision to escalate the group’s role in the fighting in 5/24/13 from Ynetnews Read more »
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Daughters of Confederacy to host memorial service on Saturday
memorial service at East End Cemetery on Saturday, May 25, at 11 a.m. In case of rain the memorial service will be held at Lebanon Lutheran Church on West Lee Highway. The public is invited. The speaker for the morning will be Vicar Jonathan Meyers from Holy 5/24/13 from SWVA Today Read more »
