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The Lebanese police detained a taxi driver in connection with the murder of 30-year-old British woman Rebecca Dykes. That is what Lebanese media report.

The woman who was found dead by road Saturday in the Lebanese capital Beirut, would have been sexually abused and murdered. That reports the Lebanese police. According to the BBC, it is the body of Rebeccca Dykes, a British diplomat.

The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah is once again turning its sights on the Palestinian cause after the battle in Syria. Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed this on Monday.

Lebanese security forces have deployed tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators at the American embassy in Beirut on Sunday.

Israel has shot missiles on a military complex near Damascus, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian anti-aircraft organization would have intercepted three missiles.

Israel has attacked an Iranian base under construction not far from the Syrian capital Damascus with fighter planes. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this Saturday on the basis of pro-government media in Syria.

At least 23 people were killed by an attack by Syrian government troops against a stronghold of rebels. The attack was carried out on Sunday in the vicinity of the capital Damascus.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has returned to his homeland, more than two weeks after he announced his resignation in Saudi Arabia. He landed at Beirut airport on Tuesday evening, aboard a plane from Cairo that made a brief stopover in Cyprus. That has been announced by his spokesman.

The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, arrived in Paris on Saturday morning. This is reported by TV channels in Lebanon that also showed footage of a column of cars that left French airport Le Bourget, where Hariri had landed earlier.

Iran hopes that Saad Hariri will remain as prime minister in Lebanon. Ali Akbar Velayati, the chief adviser to Iran's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, told the Iranian state television this Tuesday. Velayati denies that before Harari retired he had a tense interview with him in Beirut.

The annual marathon of Beirut has begun on a mass protest for the return of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The prime minister is in Saudi Arabia, where he suddenly declared his resignation on November 4 because he was afraid to be murdered. Since then nothing has been learned from him.

The Lebanese President Michel Aoun demanded Saturday in Saudi Arabia to explain why Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has not yet returned from a visit to the Kingdom.

The Israeli Air Force has attacked Syrian Air Force Shield. That happened according to the Israeli forces after military aircraft were shot while they were busy on a flight of Lebanon over Lebanon.

Clearly coordinated attacks in the Syrian capital of Damascus certainly killed eleven people on Monday, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Russian forces have built a bridge over the Euphrates east of the city of Deir al-Zor for the Syrian President Assad troops. The Russian television reported this Tuesday and showed images of the bridge over which military vehicles crossed.

Buses with IS warriors evacuated from an area near the Lebanese border have reached Deir al-Zor on Wednesday in eastern Syria. The evacuation took place after the terrorist organization had released a Hizbollah prisoner. That confirmed a Commander of the Lebanese militia who fought with the Assyrian Syrian army.

Israel fears Iran will establish multiple army bases in neighboring Syria. Damascus and Tehran are about to make an agreement there, Israeli Minister Yisrael Katz (Information) said at a security conference.

Syria does not recognize in a UN report in which it is held responsible for a deadly attack with chemical weapons in April. The government of President Bashar al-Assad claims not to have used such weapons, nor is it going to be.

A convoy with hundreds of IS warriors and their families is reversed after air attacks. The buses are driven by the highest US general in the region by areas owned by the Syrian government.

A Syrian refugee has been found guilty by a German court of an attempt to reveal Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. The 39-year-old hairdresser, once fled to Germany from the Syrian capital of Damascus, was sentenced to a two-year sentence by a court in the city of Saarbrücken.

Russia has entered into an agreement for the escalation of the conflict with rebels on the eastern shore of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that the agreement in Cairo was reached with Egypt as a mediator.

On a car bomb attack in a busy district in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Sunday is definitely twenty dead and many dozens injured. That made the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs known.

A car bomb attack caused several deaths in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday morning. The vehicle exploded on Tahrir Square in the center of the city.

The Syrian government rejects a report on the use of poison gas in April. It is not credible according to Damascus because it is based on 'witnesses of terrorists who are in Turkey.' Turkey is a major pillars of radical Sunni rebels fighting the government in Damascus.

Nearly half a million Syrians killed for war violence returned home this year. The vast majority, 440,000 people, remained in Syria itself. More than 31,000 people returned from neighboring countries. These figures brought the UNHCR, UN Refugee Organization, out on Friday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has prayed in a mosque in the city of Hama on Sunday, on behalf of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the fasting month, far from the capital. Syrian state media showed the president with clergy, parliamentarians and civilians in the al-Nouri Mosque in Hama, more than 180 kilometers north of Damascus.

In Jerusalem, on Friday, a double attack, claiming Islamic state, killed an Israeli police officer and killed his three Palestinians. Steps and shootings took place in two places near Damascus Gate on the outskirts of the Old Town.

At two coordinated attacks of Palestinians on Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on Friday, an agent was severely injured. Three Palestinian attackers have been killed.

During the night of Wednesday, the Russian Air Force destroyed three IS convoys in Syria on Thursday. In addition, eighty warriors of the terrorist organization came to life, a source said in the Russian Ministry of Defense Thursday against the press office TASS.

From Russian naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea, four cruising missiles were fired on positions of the Islamic State terrorist movement in Syria. Russian media reported that the missiles were launched from a frigate and a submarine and targeted by Islamic State (IS) in the vicinity of Palmyra.