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U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months

And why are they exchanging fire with the US in tit-for-tat attacks around the region?

Observers fear that Hezbollah joining war against Israel could cause devastation in Lebanon and regional escalation.

The Arab League’s decision to re-admit Syria after 12 years of ostracization was a large symbolic victory for Damascus

US mediators tried for more than a decade to broker a maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

The recent maritime border deal between Lebanon and Israel allocates rights to off-shore natural gas drilling and has been hailed as a game changer

Israel’s attack on Damascus airport last week highlights the importance of a deal between Iran and the West to Syria.

A flare-up in tensions between the UN nuclear monitor and Iran this week has left US President Joe Biden in an increasingly tight jam. The US leader opened his presidency with a pledge to return to the 2015 international agreement that aimed to prevent Tehran from building nuclear weapons, after…

Washington (AFP) - A flare-up in tensions between the UN nuclear monitor and Iran this week has left US President Joe Biden in an increasingly tight jam.