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 ...
![A Lebanese man holding a umbrella walks past abandoned Israeli cannons during a snow storm in the southern village of Khiam, on the Israeli-Lebanese border. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Israel/000_Nic6274568.jpg?itok=lD9mZaLa "A Lebanese man holding a umbrella walks past abandoned Israeli cannons during a snow storm in the southern village of Khiam, on the Israeli-Lebanese border. [AFP]")
![Image of a fallen Hezbollah sign. The Shia have been in Lebanon for a thousand years, but Hezbollah has only existed since 1982. [worldaffairsjournal]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/lebanon/Hezbollah_Logo_Truck_Near_Fatima_Gate.jpg?itok=IX09wByD "Image of a fallen Hezbollah sign. The Shia have been in Lebanon for a thousand years, but Hezbollah has only existed since 1982. [worldaffairsjournal]"){kind=logo}
![Government forces are seeking to encircle the rebels in the Qalamoun region north of Damascus and sever opposition supply lines across the nearby border with Lebanon. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/454121639.jpg?itok=mGiE0Ws9 "Government forces are seeking to encircle the rebels in the Qalamoun region north of Damascus and sever opposition supply lines across the nearby border with Lebanon. [AFP]")
![Site of a suicide bombing in the Jisr Abyad neighborhood in Damascus. [hdnux]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/maaloula_nuns.jpg?itok=Anmixg1N "Site of a suicide bombing in the Jisr Abyad neighborhood in Damascus. [hdnux]")
