Lebanon

Photo: Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press
Tires burned to block the highway linking Beirut with the coastal village of Jiyeh, Lebanon, on Thursday.

NYTimes:
The decision by the Lebanese government to shut down a private telephone network operated by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah was an act of war and Hezbollah would defend itself, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, said on Thursday.