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- Israel warplanes break sound barrier over Lebanon
- TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Six Israeli jets flew over south Lebanon and broke the sound barrier twice over the port city of Tyre on Wednesday, a security official said. "Six Israeli warplanes flew all over southern Lebanon and the city of Tyre at low altitude for more than an...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Israel warns Lebanon to keep distance from Hezbollah
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israel has warned the Lebanese government against giving greater legitimacy to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, saying it would make the entire country a target in any future war. "The moment the Lebanese government confers legitimacy on Hezbollah, it must understand that the entire Lebanese state...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Jordan to free killers of Israeli soldiers August 20
- AMMAN AFP — Four Jordanian prisoners released by Israel last year to complete their life sentences in the kingdom will be freed next week, police said on Thursday. The prisoners were sentenced to life in jail in Israel for killing two Israeli soldiers in November 1990, four years before...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Lebanon govt adopts manifesto, paving way for confidence vote
- BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's national unity government on Monday adopted a manifesto that affirms the authority of the state over all matters, including the weaponry held by Hezbollah, a minister said. "The document was approved unanimously," Information Minister Tareq Mitri said at the end of a cabinet meeting chaired...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- Top Syrian general assassinated: reports
- BEIRUT AFP — Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime's liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bomb of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, which the...
- Research articles 2008-08-03
- Villagers in south Lebanon camp outdoors amid quake fears
- SRIFA, Lebanon AFP — Hundreds of residents of the south Lebanon village of Srifa have been camping out at night amid fears that a major earthquake will hit the region, their mayor said on Tuesday. Ali Eid said around 300 people from Srifa, a village of 6,000 inhabitants east...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Hezbollah tells Israel missing airman is dead: report
- JERUSALEM AFP — The Lebanese Hezbollah militia has told Israel through the United Nations that aviator Ron Arad, who has been listed as missing in Lebanon since 1986, is dead, the Haaretz newspaper reported. Israeli authorities had said a prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah would only go ahead once...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Israel parliament adopts law on 'enemy' travel
- JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli parliament passed a law on Monday banning any citizen who has visited an "enemy" country in the previous seven years from standing for election to the legislature, triggering the anger of Israeli Arab MPs. Fifty-two members of the 120-seat parliament approved the law at...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Israeli cabinet to vote on Hezbollah prisoner swap Sunday
- JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli government will vote on Sunday on a possible prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said. "I decided to bring the issue for the government's approval when it meets on Sunday," Olmert said in parliament on Wednesday. Last week, Lebanese...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Israeli MPs discuss election disqualification law
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli MPs have passed the first reading of a bill that would forbid any citizen who had visited an enemy state in the previous seven years without permission from standing for parliament The text, adopted late Tuesday by a vote of 63-16, with three abstentions, was...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Olmert calls for Israel-Lebanon talks
- JERUSALEM AFP — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday suggested holding peace talks with Lebanon, following last month's announcement of Israel's indirect Turkish-mediated negotiations with Syria. "I would have been glad if after the announcement of the talks with Syria the Lebanese government would announce its willingness to open...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- UN clears cluster bombs from areas of south Lebanon
- TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Almost half of the areas in southern Lebanon contaminated with cluster bombs dropped by Israel in 2006 have been cleared, a UN official said on Wednesday. "Forty three percent of the areas affected by the cluster bombs dropped during the July 2006 war have been...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- Lebanon deal fails to tackle conflict's causes: French FM
- JERUSALEM AFP — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in Jerusalem on Friday that the deal reached by Lebanon's rival factions fails to tackle the roots of the crisis, though it was a first step. "It goes in the right direction, but none of the essence of the crisis...
- Research articles 2008-05-23
- UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border
- HASBAYA, Lebanon AFP — UN peacekeepers in Lebanon began on Friday erecting a barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel to prevent breaches of the "Blue Line" aimed at keeping peace between the two neighbours. "UNIFIL soldiers began laying the barbed-wire fence in the area north of the border...
- Research articles 2008-04-10
- Hizballah rising: Iran's proxy warriors
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While al Qaeda has claimed the world headlines in recent years, Hizballah has established itself in a class of its own--what some terrorism experts call "the best in the business." (1) In 2006, Hizballah infiltrated Israel, ambushed an Israeli patrol, took two soldiers hostage, fought the Israeli...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Israeli soldier accused of spying for Hezbollah
- HAIFA, Israel AFP — A career soldier in the Israeli army has been charged with high treason for allegedly spying for Lebanon's pro-Iran Hezbollah militia, a military official said on Monday. Sergeant Luai Balut was indicted by a military court in Haifa, in northern Israel. He is accused...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Rocket fire disrupts ceremony for missing Lebanon militant
- MINYA, Lebanon AFP — Two rocket-propelled grenades were fired on Sunday over a ceremony for a missing Lebanese militant being attended by a Hezbollah lawmaker, a security official said. Hezbollah MP Hussein al-Haj Hasan was addressing the event in Minya, north of the city of Tripoli, to commemorate the...
- Research articles 2008-03-16
- Jittery Lebanese brace for worst
- TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Hezbollah's recent threat of open war on Israel and Lebanon's seemingly endless political crisis have many jittery Lebanese getting their passports ready to flee the country or renting apartments in "safe" regions. Officials in southern Lebanon, which bore the brunt of the 2006 war between...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Lebanon to boycott Paris book fair
- BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon is to stay away from this year's Paris book fair in protest at the invitation of Israel as guest of honour, Culture Minister Tarek Mitri announced on Wednesday. "Lebanon will not participate this year in protest at the cultural event's organisers' decision to select Israel...
- Research articles 2008-02-27
- Row in Israel over comments by member of 2006 war probe
- JERUSALEM AFP — A member of Israel's Lebanon war commission sparked uproar on Wednesday by suggesting that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should stay in power because he supports the Middle East peace process. "If we think that the prime minister will promote the peace process, this is a very...
- Research articles 2008-02-06
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