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Lebanese army says suspects were planning foreign attacks

The Lebanese army has arrested 10 suspected members of a terrorist network who the military believes were planning to attack targets abroad, the army said.

Lebanon: Crowd attack U.N. peacekeepers

A crowd in southern Lebanon threw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers over the weekend, wounding 14 of them in an effort to prevent the investigation of an explosion in the area, the United Nations said.

Israel: Lebanon blast shows Hezbollah stocking weapons

An explosion in southern Lebanon indicates that the militant group Hezbollah continues to store weapons near the Israeli border, the Israeli military claimed Wednesday.

Lebanese PM condemns rocket attack on Israel

Lebanon's prime minister condemned the firing of rockets into northern Israel after an attack wounded two Israelis on Thursday. He said his government is trying to determine who was responsible.

U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon

A United Nations peacekeeper working to clear landmines died Wednesday in southern Lebanon, according to a spokeswoman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

Time.com: Peacekeeping with Hizballah's Help

Menaced by al-Qaeda, peacekeeping forces become neighborly with Lebanon's powerful Shi'a group

Time.com: An Ominous Attack in Lebanon

Peacekeeping forces are hit and al-Qaeda allies are likely suspects. Will the border with Israel flare with warfare again?

6 U.N. peacekeepers killed in southern Lebanon

A suspected car bomb struck a United Nations peacekeeping patrol Sunday in southern Lebanon, killing six Spanish peacekeepers and wounding two others, Spain's Defense Ministry said.

U.N. peacekeepers killed in Lebanon

A suspected car bomb struck a United Nations peacekeeping patrol Sunday in southern Lebanon, killing five Spanish peacekeepers and wounding three others, Spain's Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said.

Rockets fall on northern Israel

At least two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday, police and Israel Defense Forces said.

Lebanese army says suspects were planning foreign attacks

The Lebanese army has arrested 10 suspected members of a terrorist network who the military believes were planning to attack targets abroad, the army said.

Lebanon: Crowd attack U.N. peacekeepers

A crowd in southern Lebanon threw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers over the weekend, wounding 14 of them in an effort to prevent the investigation of an explosion in the area, the United Nations said.

Israel: Lebanon blast shows Hezbollah stocking weapons

An explosion in southern Lebanon indicates that the militant group Hezbollah continues to store weapons near the Israeli border, the Israeli military claimed Wednesday.

Lebanese PM condemns rocket attack on Israel

Lebanon's prime minister condemned the firing of rockets into northern Israel after an attack wounded two Israelis on Thursday. He said his government is trying to determine who was responsible.

U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon

A United Nations peacekeeper working to clear landmines died Wednesday in southern Lebanon, according to a spokeswoman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

Time.com: Peacekeeping with Hizballah's Help

Menaced by al-Qaeda, peacekeeping forces become neighborly with Lebanon's powerful Shi'a group

Time.com: An Ominous Attack in Lebanon

Peacekeeping forces are hit and al-Qaeda allies are likely suspects. Will the border with Israel flare with warfare again?

6 U.N. peacekeepers killed in southern Lebanon

A suspected car bomb struck a United Nations peacekeeping patrol Sunday in southern Lebanon, killing six Spanish peacekeepers and wounding two others, Spain's Defense Ministry said.

U.N. peacekeepers killed in Lebanon

Rockets fall on northern Israel

At least two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday, police and Israel Defense Forces said.

Gunfire erupts on Israel-Lebanon border

Lebanese army troops fired Wednesday on Israeli troops hunting for explosives along the Israel-Lebanon border, Lebanese army and Israeli military sources said.

UN peacekeepers: Israeli troops still in Lebanon

United Nations peacekeepers Sunday denied Israel's assertion that it had completely withdrawn all of its soldiers from southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader: Militants 'won't surrender arms'

In a speech to thousands of cheering supporters, the leader of Hezbollah vowed Friday the militants never will give up their arms, as called for in the U.N. resolution that ended its 34-day war with Israel last month.

Qatar to send troops to Lebanon

The Gulf state of Qatar has become the first Arab country to commit troops to the U.N. international peacekeeping operation in Lebanon.

Lebanon peace force grows as more Italians arrive

More Italian troops arrived in Lebanon Sunday as part of the largest contingent of U.N. multinational forces to date.

Annan: EU living up to Lebanon promise

European countries will provide "the backbone" of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday.

Europe pledges 7,000 peacekeepers

European countries have pledged to contribute almost 7,000 troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

France commits 2,000 to Lebanon

French President Jacques Chirac has announced he will commit a total of 2,000 French troops to the United Nations' international force that is to help Lebanon's army secure that country's borders.

Syria opposes U.N. force on border

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has expressed strong opposition to the deployment of U.N. troops along his country's border with Lebanon, saying such a move would be "hostile" to Syria and create problems between the two nations.

Annan plans Mideast trip to push Lebanon cease-fire

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will head for the Middle East Friday to push for the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

U.N. envoy: Lebanon facing critical test

Lebanon faces a critical test in the coming days that will determine whether the country emerges as a strong democracy or finds itself plunged back into violence, U.N. Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Sunday.

Israel: Raid targets weapons transfer

The Israeli military says it conducted a successful operation deep inside Lebanon Saturday aimed at preventing and disrupting the transfer of weapons from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah.

Annan: 400,000 return to Lebanon

Since a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect Monday, some 400,000 displaced Lebanese civilians have returned to the southern suburbs of Beirut and other areas, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the Security Council Friday.

U.N.: Israeli raid violates cease-fire

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is "deeply concerned" about Israel's commando raid Saturday in eastern Lebanon, which he said violated the cease-fire resolution concerning Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesman said in a written statement.

Italy to send 3,000 troops for U.N. peace force

Italy's government Friday formally approved a plan to send up to 3,000 troops to Lebanon to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission there, the prime minister's office said.

Italy to join U.N. peace force

Italy's government Friday formally approved a plan to send an unspecified number of troops to Lebanon to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission there, the prime minister's office said.

Israel says it has begun withdrawal from Lebanon

Israeli troops have begun handing over control of territory in southern Lebanon to the U.N. observer mission, the Israeli military announced early Thursday.

Israel says it will leave Lebanon in 10 days

The Israel Defense Forces will complete their pullout from southern Lebanon within 10 days, giving way to U.N. and Lebanese troops, Israel's army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said Tuesday.

The draft resolution presented at the U.N.

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Sources: U.S., France agree on peace plan

The main points of a resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have been agreed to by the U.S. and France, diplomatic sources said Thursday.

Israeli envoy: Fire will cease when fire's put out

Israeli warplanes attacked Beirut's southern suburbs early Friday and bombed major routes out of the capital to the north.

Tyrrell: Bravo, Condi

The other day in Rome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held her ground. Bravo, Condi. Her counterparts in the "international community" wanted to prevail upon her to join with them in an agreement calling upon Israel to desist from trying to extirpate from southern Lebanon Hezbollah launch sites used for the missiles that have been raining down on northern Israel -- unprovoked.

Border battles flare amid rocket attacks

The Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters exchanged heavy fire around three border towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday as rockets rained on northern Israel, much of which appears to be nearly deserted.

Rome push for Lebanon cease-fire

Key players in the Middle East were locked in tense talks Wednesday to try hammer out plans to halt the 15-day old conflict in Lebanon, speed humanitarian assistance and possibly deploy an international force.

Accusations fly after U.N. observers killed

A diplomatic firestorm raged Wednesday after four U.N. observers died in southern Lebanon in what the U.N. chief said was an "apparently deliberate" Israeli airstrike.

U.N.: Observers made many calls before strike

The U.N. observers killed when an Israeli bomb hit their bunker in Lebanon Tuesday called an Israeli military liaison about 10 times in the six hours before they died to warn that aerial attacks were getting close to their position, a U.N. officer said.

Israeli troops suffer largest one-day loss

The Israeli military on Wednesday suffered its largest loss of life in its 15-day offensive against Hezbollah guerillas as nine Israeli soldiers were killed while fighting in southern Lebanese towns.

U.N.: Israeli airstrike hits U.N. observer post

An Israeli airstrike hit a United Nations post in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least two of the agency's observers, according to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

Hezbollah, Israel exchange missiles, rockets

Hezbollah rockets destroyed homes and lives in northern Israel on Tuesday, and Israeli forces bombarded Lebanese villages as violence between the two groups entered a third week.

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