Golan Heights

The threat of devastation on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon conflict is now enormous. Does that mean no more wars?

Israel may have good reasons to help Syrian rebels, but do those rebels include an al Qaeda affiliate? And are they about to slaughter relatives of Israel’s Druze minority?

When the Free Syrian Army pushed Assad’s soldiers out of a town south of Damascus, the last thing they expected to find was a Russian spy post, a few miles from the Golan Heights.

In the 1860s, the Circassian people were driven out of Sochi by the Czar’s armies. Now, displaced again by Assad’s war, they want the world to recognize them—and to return home.

From Bradley Manning at his court-martial to a sunken Swiss bus, see the week’s most striking images.

Orly Halpern rounds up the news from Israel.

Israel fears that Assad’s chemical weapons could end up with Hizbullah—or that he could resort to desperate measures.