France is engaged in "multiple contacts" aimed at averting an escalation of hostilities on Lebanon's southern border between the Shia movement HizbAllah and the Israeli army, the French foreign ministry said Sunday. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier Sunday urged France and the United States to "intervene" to calm the tensions, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President ...
![Lebanese soldiers at the site of a car bomb attack on a Hezbollah convoy travelling towards the border crossing with Syria on Tuesday. [ AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/Lebanese-car-bomb-attack--010.jpg?itok=mJVeZYK0 "Lebanese soldiers at the site of a car bomb attack on a Hezbollah convoy travelling towards the border crossing with Syria on Tuesday. [ AFP]")
![Clashes between moderate Syrian rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked ISIL shifts to a new province on the border with Turkey. [Al-Arabiya]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/fd6bc1a4-c22f-4149-8dc4-29dc80e91ef9_16x9_788x442.jpg?itok=x4Ay_JYN "Clashes between moderate Syrian rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked ISIL shifts to a new province on the border with Turkey. [Al-Arabiya]")
![People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460342937.jpg?itok=noAhRsjZ "People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]")
![Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/lebanon/000_Nic6280975.jpg?itok=l2C8Kem5 "Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. [AFP]")
![The head of a jihadist group behind the suicide bomb attack on the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November is arrested, reports say. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/453444193.jpg?itok=J-gz96GQ "The head of a jihadist group behind the suicide bomb attack on the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November is arrested, reports say. [AFP]")
