Israel has conducted limited ground incursions into Lebanon and carried out an air strike on central Beirut on Monday for the first time in almost two decades. Two people familiar with the situation said Israeli forces had carried out small-scale operations across the border,

The Amro family household in Lebanon's lush Keserwan mountains had become a refuge for families who wanted to stay outside the line of fire of creeping war in the country's south. By Sept. 25, more than 50 people from three families had gathered in two buildings at the centre of Maaysrah,