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Syrian forces walk in the Krak des Chevaliers area near the Syria-Lebanon border, after seizing the Crusader fortress on March 20, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Sam Skaine)
March 21, 2014, 5:22 pm
With Hezbollah’s help, Assad makes key advances
In several hot spots, exhausted non-jihadist rebels lay down their arms in exchange for safe passage courtesy of the regime
By Sara Hussein and Rita Daou
IDF soldiers carry a comrade injured in a blast on the Golan Heights to a waiting helicopter on March 18, 2014 (photo credit:AFP/Jalaa Marey)
March 18, 2014, 11:48 pm
Hezbollah a likely culprit in cross-border attack
Shiite group has an appetite for revenge, and may be allocating more resources to strike at Israeli targets
By Avi Issacharoff
A Lebanese man holds part of an exploded rocket that hit a house in the predominately Shiite town of Labweh, near the border with Syria, northeast Lebanon, Monday March 17, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
March 18, 2014, 10:25 pm
In Syrian spillover, hostilities swell in Lebanon
Sunnis show signs of growing resentment toward Shiite group Hezbollah for its involvement in civil war
By Diaa Hadid
Illustrative photo of Lebanese troops (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
March 17, 2014, 2:45 pm
Lebanese army moves to Syrian border as rebels flee Yabroud
Fall of key border city could lead to more spillover from the civil war into Lebanon
By AP
Pro-government forces stand on a street in the Syrian town of Yabroud on March 16, 2014 after they seized full control of the rebel bastion in the strategic Qalamun region near the Lebanese border. (photo credit: Topshots/AFP/Joseph Eid)
March 17, 2014, 2:30 pm
After taking Yabroud, Syrian army drives against rebels
Regime forces push deeper into Qalamoun region as refugees flee across border to Lebanon
By AFP
US President Barack Obama and PA President Mahmoud Abbas wave to the crowd during Obama's visit to Ramallah, March 21, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
March 16, 2014, 4:31 pm
Fatah aide says no concessions as Abbas set to meet Obama
Group organizes West Bank solidarity rallies for PA president; Arab world largely focused on Syria
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinians are evacuated from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, on February 2, 2014. (UNRWA/AFP)
March 14, 2014, 10:15 am
Assad is starving Palestinians to death in a Syrian camp, and nobody cares
150,000 used to live in Yarmouk, now there are 20,000; Israel worries about the Golan, where Islamists control much of the border area
By Avi Issacharoff
Ibrahim, 18, a Syrian rebel who lost one of his eyes during a battle against government forces and Hezbollah fighters in Rima village near Yabroud, lies on his bed as his aunt helps him to put hat on his head, at a makeshift hospital in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arsal, eastern Lebanon on Wdnesday, March 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
March 7, 2014, 2:36 am
Syria-Lebanon frontier blurs as battle for key city rages
Hezbollah, Sunni fighters flow into Yabroud, Syria, while rebels make nearby Lebanese town a strategic base
By Barbara Surk
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