* ‘Hizbullah’s military might is restored’ Hizbullah has restored its military capability and replenished its stockpiles of weapons and missiles since the end of the Second Lebanon War.

* Syrian Official: War with Israel will be Ballistic Syria sees the next war with Israel as involving missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and front-line guerilla warfare.

* Blair sees ‘sense of possibility’ in ME Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take advantage of a new “sense of possibility” in the region.

* US-Iran talks begin in Iraq Iranian and US officials have begun rare talks in Baghdad amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

* Tisha B’Av in a Gush Katif Tent in Jerusalem Prayers marking the fast day of the Ninth of Av, known as Tisha B’av, are being held in a tent erected opposite the Knesset in Jerusalem.

* Peres urges world to unite against Iran President Shimon Peres has called on the world to unite against Iran and to force it to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

* $100 Oil Price May Be Months Away, Say CIBC, Goldman The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away.

* Just like the constitution, say friends and foes of new EU treaty Both advocates and critics of the complete draft of the new EU treaty highlight its similarity with the bloc’s failed constitution.

* Photo Essay: 100,000 Jews At Western Wall for Tisha B’Av 5767 Over one hundred thousand Jews flooded the Kotel (Western Wall) Plaza on Monday night and Tuesday.

* EU fears split over Kosovo As Belgrade and Pristina are heading for last resort negotiations on the future of Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo, the European Union is set to maintain its fragile unity over the issue.