Discover the values that drive the story. The Christian Science Monitor's coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel, and related articles. A deeper view that unites instead of divides ...

the Iran-linked Lebanese militia and political party,... The bloody civil conflict that swept Lebanon on this day in 1975 resulted in more than 150,000 fatalities and 300,000 injuries. Tens of ...

Three minutes before midnight ... as the 23-storey building shook. It was not war, but an earthquake, its epicentre in Syria. In the Lebanese capital, it was a mere tremor, no damage was reported.