An offensive launched by Syria along its border with Lebanon on Thursday escalated into intense clashes between Syrian forces ...

as well as other land in the region (see map 5). The Assads increasingly sought to challenge Israel’s growing power in the region. Syria took advantage of Lebanon’s civil war to occupy the ...

Lebanon and Syria will work together to secure their land borders, as well as to delineate both land and sea borders, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday in Damascus.