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A Sarajevo moment for the Middle East?
The murder of a politician in Lebanon could be as decisive a turning point as the assassination that started the first world war. Jon Snows reflects on the spiraling Sunni-Shia conflict across the Middle East.
A blast in a Shia district in southern Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least two people – the latest apparent attack linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.
At least five people die after a suspected car bomb exploded in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The murder of a politician in Lebanon could be as decisive a turning point as the assassination that started the first world war. Jon Snows reflects on the spiraling Sunni-Shia conflict across the Middle East.
A car bomb rips through the business district in the center of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, killing a prominent pro-western politician and four others.
The UN says 5,000-6,000 Syrians flee the country every day and some 1,200 have crossed into Lebanon in the last few days. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum investigates.
Every time I visit, Lebanon seems more fragile. In August, Beirut was recovering from a car bomb that killed 27. Today, a suicide bomber followed by a car bomb exploded outside the Iranian embassy, killing 23.
At least 23 have been killed and 146 injured in two huge blasts near Beirut’s Iranian embassy. An al-Qaeda linked group has claimed responsibility, blaming Iran’s support for Syria’s President Assad.
Responding to the bombing outside Iran’s embassy in Beirut, former foreign secretary David Miliband tells Channel 4 News: “We have seen the overt export of the Syrian civil war into Lebanon.”
As Egyptians get deja vu at the trial of another deposed president, a Channel 4 News interactive graphic looks at what has happened more than two and a half years on from the Arab Spring.
Reporting from Beirut, Alex Thomson finds the Lebanese public deeply sceptical of the Russian plan for President Assad’s chemical weapons. Up to a thousand a week still die in Syria.
Alex Thomson finds Beirut’s Christian community full of fear, convinced that a US attack on Syria will take place.
As Barack Obama says he is “confident” congress will vote in favour of military action in Syria, Channel 4 News explores the relationships between Syria, her Middle Eastern neighbours, and the west.
The House of Commons vote will not authorise direct British involvement in military action against Syria. That may come as some relief to Syria’s neighbour Lebanon.
As new figures show 93,000 have died in Syria’s bloody civil war, how can ever-growing Sunni-Shia tensions be stopped to avoid dragging neighbouring Lebanon in the worsening sectarian conflict?
Several fighters die in an overnight clash between Hezbollah fighters and Syrian rebel forces in Lebanon’s eastern border region with Syria.