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Tehran, YJC. Majlis National Security Spokesman says Iran has found the financial end of its Beirut Embassy bombing.

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah said Saudi Arabia is behind last month's twin bombing outside Iran's embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

BEIRUT, Oct 01, 2014 (AFP) - Fierce fighting between Kurdish militia and Islamic State jihadists for a strategic Syrian border town killed at least 10 people overnight, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.

BEIRUT, Sept 16, 2014 (AFP) - Jihadist fire downed a Syrian air force plane over the Islamic State stronghold of Raqa on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

BEIRUT, Oct 07, 2014 (AFP) - Fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish militia in the key Syrian border town of Kobane has spread to new areas in the south and west, a monitor said on Tuesday.

The images of recent days have an eerie familiarity, as if the horrors of the past decade were being played back: masked gunmen recapturing the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi, where so many American soldiers died fighting them. Car bombs exploding amid the elegance of downtown Beirut. The charnel house of Syria's worsening civil war.

BEIRUT, Jan 05, 2015 (AFP) - Overwhelmed by a massive influx of desperate refugees, Lebanon began imposing unprecedented visa restrictions on Syrians on Monday, including those fleeing their country's civil war.

BEIRUT, Aug 20, 2014 (AFP) - Syria and the United States find themselves on the same side of the battle against Islamic State jihadists, but a common enemy is unlikely to mean direct cooperation.

BEIRUT, Feb 10, 2015 (AFP) - Damascus receives "information" about air strikes by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Tehran, YJC. National Security member has blasted Saudi efforts to take terrorist bomber under custody.

Tehran, YJC. Foreign Minister says Iran will send a group to Lebanon to aid Lebanese authorities in interrogating Majed al-Majed.