TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The battle-scarred streets of this hilltop enclave have fallen quiet, but fighters say the shaky truce is a mere pause in a conflict that has just begun and which threatens all Lebanon. Full story
NYT: A massacre in which entire families were executed has revealed new depths of ruthlessness in Syria’s war, inflaming sectarian divisions and making any hope of reconciliation appear ever more distant. Full story
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria's two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. Full story
BEIRUT (Reuters) - State forces and militias loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stormed the coastal village of Baida on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Full story
BEIRUT (Reuters) - In Syria, for scores of men called each month to join the army for deadly combat, there is a more attractive alternative: stay home, join a loyalist paramilitary group, and get a share of the loot in raids on President Bashar al-Assad's enemies. Full story
AMMAN (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, a doctor said, as fighting raged around a road junction on a supply line to government forces in the interior of the country. Full story
At least nine people die as Sunni Muslims and Alawites fight for a second day. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
REFILE - CORRECTING COUNTRY IDENTIFIERLebanese Army soldiers remove barricades after months of clashes between Sunni Muslims and the small Alawite community, in Tripoli June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)
