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 ...
![Residents of the industrial city of Adra, northeast of Damascus, walking as they are evacuated from the city, which is strategically located on a main road into the capital, due to fierce fighting between government troops and opposition forces. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6280282.jpg?itok=AeGjY_5H "Residents of the industrial city of Adra, northeast of Damascus, walking as they are evacuated from the city, which is strategically located on a main road into the capital, due to fierce fighting between government troops and opposition forces. [AFP]")
![A Syrian refugee family covers their make shift home with plastic sheeting as a rain and cold weather front envelops the region, close to the southern Lebanese village of Sardah on December 29, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6279893.jpg?itok=WmV8U0mk "A Syrian refugee family covers their make shift home with plastic sheeting as a rain and cold weather front envelops the region, close to the southern Lebanese village of Sardah on December 29, 2013. [AFP]")
![Lebanese police forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a car at the site of a powerful car bomb explosion on December 28, 2013 that rocked central Beirut the previous day. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6279498.jpg?itok=W6hFtvNi "Lebanese police forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a car at the site of a powerful car bomb explosion on December 28, 2013 that rocked central Beirut the previous day. [AFP]")
![Beirut : Fire is seen at the site of a car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6279144.jpg?itok=FrDee19h "Beirut : Fire is seen at the site of a car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]")
