Mideast Conflict Video

Syria faces intense political trouble with Lebanon, a confrontation with the U.S. over Iraq and a crisis about its role in the Arab world. But Syria's greatest challenge may be with itself.

Syrian troops are gone, but the spate of murders of anti-Syrian lawmakers and journalists has continued. Meanwhile the country's political web remains tangled, as Kevin Sites reports from Beirut.

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In Haifa?s Rambam Hospital, the wards are full of young men like Brian Seidner - Israeli soldiers who got out of Lebanon with their lives, but just barely. Seidner describes his experience fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Ya'ar Ben-Giat, 19, a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces, was killed Saturday in ground fighting in south Lebanon. Friends and family mourn as he is buried near Haifa on Sunday, just a day before a cease fire is to begin.

Israel has voted to expand its ground offensive in Lebanon, but is holding off for now to give diplomatic efforts more time to gain traction. Meanwhile, additional columns of armor are already massed in northern Israel near the Lebanese border.

The Israel-Lebanon border near Metula, Israel, is an area of surprisingly quiet desolation. Kevin Sites was able to pass through a section of broken fence and inspect the rubble on the Lebanese side, where Hezbollah flags still fly.

Kevin Sites reports from the Israel-Lebanon border near Metula, Israel, where a fence is all that separates Israel and Hezbollah. It's an area of surprisingly quiet desolation, save the occasional sound of rocket or artillery fire piercing the warm breeze.

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Four bridges in Lebanon were destroyed by Israeli air strikes on Friday, breaking up the last major roadway from Beirut to Syria. Kevin Sites reports from what was left of the Halat bridge as rescue workers try to recover a car trapped in the rubble.

Nearly three weeks of Israeli bombing, and a ground fight between Israeli and Hezbollah forces, has reduced the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail to rubble. Meanwhile, a lull in the bombing has given stranded residents a chance to flee.

With a lull in the Israeli bombing campaign, journalists were able to visit Bint Jbail, the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon that has been a major focal point of the fight between Israel and Hezbollah. Kevin Sites reports.

In the deadliest attack on Lebanon since the fight between Israel and Hezbollah began, Israeli air strikes killed dozens of civilians in Qana, mostly women and children. Kevin Sites surveys the scene, where there were conflicting accounts about the death toll.

Kevin Sites gained access to the home of a Hezbollah fighter in a southern Lebanon village. He shows off a small weapons stash inside, including an M-16, an AK-47 and a grenade launcher. He says many homes have small stashes like this, but that larger weaponry is kept elsewhere.

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The Union of Municipalities in Tyre has been working with local humanitarian groups to distribute limited amounts of aid supplies for the people of southern Lebanon. Officials hope that will soon be bolstered by U.N. aid efforts.

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United Nations spokesman in Lebanon Khaled Manosour discusses the difficulty in getting aid to southern Lebanon, and outlines the plan for distribution, now that a limited supply has finally arrived.

The first U.N. shipment of humanitarian aid - 90 tons of food and medical supplies - reached Tyre, southern Lebanon, Wednesday afternoon. But with the conflict still raging, distributing the aid around the greater area will be a major challenge.

Six medics were wounded in an Israeli strike on two Red Cross ambulances Sunday night in southern Lebanon. One of the injured being transported lost a leg in the attack.

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Ali Najem is the son of the head surgeon at Najem hospital in Tyre, southern Lebanon. He shows Kevin Sites some of the shrapnel that has been removed from victims - an array of wires, metal and circuitry.

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A group of Americans who spend every summer vacationing in southern Lebanon has just made it to Tyre, but their dangerous journey is far from over. Kevin Sites interviews Zeinab Chahine and Zeinab Shaheen.

Israeli air strikes continue in and near Tyre, southern Lebanon. Sunday, three people were killed and 13 injured in a strike on a civilian bus. Note: the nurse interviewed in this clip says 18 people were aboard; that number was later confirmed at 16.

From shopping in the market to fishing in the Mediterranean, life in Gaza goes on despite the cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sami Al Salem, a Palestinian journalist living and working in Gaza, faces a daily challenge: how to separate his personal life from the story he covers.

Amani Al Hissi was seven when she was hit by a tear gas grenade during Israeli-Palestinian fighting in Gaza. Four years later she was completely blind. But in the years since, her imagination has blossomed.

Dr. Raed Arini, a thoracic surgeon, volunteers his expertise on the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. Risking his own life, he often heads to the scene of battle to treat casualties.

Upon news of casualties in Gaza, concerned Palestinians flood the Kamal Odwan hospital morgue. It's a highly emotional scene in which some will be relieved, some devastated.

In a country where they assume the regime is always listening, Syrian students speak carefully. But in this tea-house discussion, they express passionately their views on issues such as the war in Iraq and Syria's relations with Lebanon.

After a 15-year exile in France, former Prime Minister Michel Aoun has returned to Lebanon. Kevin Sites interviews him about the unlikely alliances he is forging with pro-Syrian groups such as Hezbollah.

Alleyways are cramped; tangled knots of electrical wire hang overhead; homes are crumbling. Hope seems hard to find in this Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, but Fadi Mohammed still finds it.

Lebanese army patrols are a common sight in Beirut's streets. Amid a series of murders against critics of Syria, many Lebanese fear the country is again becoming a regional pawn.

Kevin Sites sits down in Beirut's Martyr's Square with a group of Lebanese students, who are protesting Syrian influence. Amid the anicient ruins they debate the future of Lebanon.