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 security forces and firefighters at the scene of a huge car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6279214.jpg?itok=DuZxGLVb "Lebanese security forces and firefighters at the scene of a huge car bomb explosion that rocked central Beirut on December 27, 2013. [AFP]")
![An Egyptian anti-government protester holds a poster mocking Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration outside the presidential palace in Cairo on February 8, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/160970539.jpg?itok=Xkyie2WJ "An Egyptian anti-government protester holds a poster mocking Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration outside the presidential palace in Cairo on February 8, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![The head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187964887_1.jpg?itok=PctI0Pk4 "The head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah [Getty Images]")
