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181 articles tagged "Lebanon"
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DEBKAfile
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July 14, 2007, 10:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
Damascus is also moving home Syrian students at Lebanese universities due to "unstable conditions." 
DEBKAfile
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July 8, 2007, 4:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reveals a clandestine approach to Hizballah commanders in Beirut made by officers of the Spanish UN contingent after the loss of six members in a terrorist attack last Sunday, June 24. The Spanish peacekeepers offered Hizballah intelligence and military collaboration in return for protection and agreed to ...
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July 5, 2007, 10:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fatah leader in Lebanon Sultan Abul Aynayn says 20 have been killed In the fighting since May 20, one has surrendered and 21 are still holding out in the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared camp. Three of them are wounded.
DEBKAfile
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July 2, 2007, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reveals a clandestine approach to Hizballah commanders in Beirut made by officers of the Spanish UN contingent after the loss of six members in a terrorist attack last Sunday, June 24. The Spanish peacekeepers offered Hizballah intelligence and military collaboration in return for protection and agreed to ...
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June 28, 2007, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The attack, by a car packed with explosives driven by a suicide bomber, took place near Al Khiyam, in the eastern sector close to the Israeli border, exactly a week after a Katyusha rocket attack on Kiryat Shemona.
debkafile reports this was the first terrorist attack against UNIFIL forces ...
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June 26, 2007, 9:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
It erupted when an army unit was ambushed during a search for wanted terrorists affiliated with Fatah al-Islam Saturday night in Tripoli's Abu Samra district. Lebanese spokesmen say at least 8 radical fighters were killed.
The Lebanese army has been battling this group in the nearby Nahr al-Bared camp since May ...
DEBKAfile
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June 22, 2007, 2:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
They died while extracting TNT from a 107mm shell. Among the three wounded was the Jund al-Sham leader, Shehadeh Jawhar.
Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in the fifth week of fierce fighting with pro-Damascus Islamist radicals in the N. Lebanese Nahr al-Bared camp. Since the weekend, the army has destroyed or seize ...
DEBKAfile
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June 20, 2007, 9:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
They have set up roadblocks on the roads near Lebanese-Israel border and are conducting joint patrols in armored vehicles in the South to prevent further attacks.
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June 17, 2007, 2:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
They were hit in a building booby-trapped by Fatah al-Islam fighters at the Nahr al-Bared camp Friday.
The US State Department advises Americans to defer travel to Lebanon and those remaining to carefully consider the risk. The notice alerts US citizens to the renewed threats of attacks on Western and ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 16, 2007, 10:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The blast which ripped through Beirut's waterfront Manara district also killed Eido's two bodyguards and injured scores of civilians. Eido belonged to the ruling party headed by Saad Hariri, whose father, former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, was murdered in similar circumstances in 2005. An international tribunal has been set up ...
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June 16, 2007, 3:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army has been battling the pro-Syrian Palestinian uprising in the camp near Tripoli for more than four weeks. A Fatah al-Islam leader, Abu Masaab, told the Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat in a telephone interview that Shahine Shahine, a Saudi, has taken over the leadership of the group following ...
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June 12, 2007, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
This is reported by Lebanese officials in Beirut Friday as Lebanese tanks and artillery continue to pound the Islamists barricaded in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli for 20 days. Beirut has demanded their surrender. An estimated 115 people have been killed since the confrontation began, at least 60 ...
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June 8, 2007, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two kilos of explosives wired to a timer were found in an empty baby milke power container half a kilometer from a rest house resort in Tyre. Lebanese soldiers sealed off the area as explosives experts dismantled the bomb. Lebanon has witnessed a string of bombings in Beirut in the ...
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June 8, 2007, 5:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN Security Council voted Wednesday, May 30, by 10 to 5 abstentions to establish an international court to prosecute those responsible for the 2005 murder of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri.
debkafile reports exclusively that a double agent for Syrian military intelligence and al Qaeda, a Saudi national, ... 
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June 6, 2007, 12:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanese sources report Rashidyeh and Borj al-Shamali camps south of Ain Hilwa are restless after Fatah al-Islam commander Abu Hureira fighting Lebanese forces in the northern camp of Nahr al-Bared threatened to escalate the conflict.
debkafile reported earlier that Beirut Palestinian refugee camps and UNIFIL contingents are also in ... 
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June 4, 2007, 9:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: After two weeks of fighting, the Lebanese army is still stalled in its effort to break through to the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and rout the Fatah al-Islam radicals holed up there. Two tough obstacles have not been overcome - even with the help of ...
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June 3, 2007, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the north, debkafile reports Lebanese troops have advanced 400m into the Nahr el-Bared camp near Tripoli against stiff Fatah al-Islam resistance.
The Lebanese army has suffered some 50 dead in its two-week push to crush the Damascus-backed Islamic radicals, who have lost around 35 men. Spearheaded by ...
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June 3, 2007, 9:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
A military helicopter is reported to have bombed Palestinian radical positions at the edge of the Nahr al-Bared camp Saturday for the first time in two weeks of fighting. Three Lebanese soldiers were killed. Friday, June 1, 18 people were killed, two of them soldiers. The Lebanese troops seized positions ...
DEBKAfile
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May 30, 2007, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Friday, May 25, the first cargoes of American advanced weapons, ammunition and special anti-terror combat systems landed in Beirut to boost the Lebanese army's bid to subdue the radical Fatah al-Islam uprising in the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli.
Our sources ...
DEBKAfile
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May 26, 2007, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanese PM vowed Thursday to eradicate terrorists in the northern Palestinian camp of Nahr al-Bared. Speaking over national TV Thursday, Fouad Siniora he pledged not to attack civilians, "our Palestinian brothers."
Earlier, the Lebanese army sank two small boats in which the Islamists were escaping the besieged camp. The new French ... |
