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11/7/2008- Syrian President Bashar Assad said his country does not intend to make a military comeback to Lebanon, pledging that an agreement on setting up diplomatic ties could be discussed with the new cabinet in Beirut. (more…)

9/7/2008- Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday in war games officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats, state television reported. (more…)

1/7/2008- Seymour M. Hersh- Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says.
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1/7/2008- Syrian President Bashar Assad has called for the speedy formation of a national unity cabinet in Lebanon and the implementation of the Doha accord. (more…)

30/6/2008- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will travel to Paris Friday, the first high-level visit by a Syrian official since four years, to discuss with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner the situation in the region, including Lebanon, Middle East News Agency reported. (more…)

27/6/2008- AFP- Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 Islamists in the past six months on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil industry installations, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday. (more…)

27/6/2008- AFP- The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s probe into an alleged covert nuclear facility in the Syrian desert has gotten off to “a good start,” a top official said on Wednesday. (more…)

19/6/2008- A truce between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas went into effect at dawn Thursday, hours after the two sides launched attacks that highlighted the difficulties they face in holding the cease-fire together. (more…)

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said Damascus backs the formation of a Lebanese national unity cabinet away from foreign interference.”Syria has actively contributed to reaching the Doha accord out of its (Damascus’) concern for the security and stability of Lebanon,” Muallem told the People’s Council. (more…)

A Palestinian militant was killed and an Israeli soldier was wounded in clashes Friday just inside Gaza following a deadly mortar attack on the Jewish state, medical and military officials said.
The member of the armed wing of Hamas died in an exchange of fire between militants and an Israeli military unit near the border, Gaza emergency medical services said.

Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the impoverished territory, said in a statement its fighters had fired anti-tank rockets at the troops.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said a soldier was wounded when the gunmen fired at an engineering unit operating armored bulldozers along the border.

Earlier at least 10 Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli air raid on a Hamas police post in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.

The raid on a building in Beit Lahiya held by militiamen of the ruling Hamas movement claimed casualties among civilians, the emergency services said.

6/6/2008- An Israeli army spokesman confirmed the raid, saying it had targeted “a Hamas position” and was in reply to a mortar attack that had killed an Israeli civilian on Thursday. (more…)

5/6/2008- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called on Wednesday for a national dialogue toward reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to him last June. (more…)

5/6/2008- Posted by AP-Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader called on Muslims to launch a holy war to break Israel’s economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, in an audio recording posted Wednesday on an Islamic militant website. (more…)