Lasting quiet returns to south Lebanon
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Hezbollah fighters have vanished in south Lebanon, melting back into the population. Whether peace holds will depend on how they put up with the newest players in their longtime stronghold: the Lebanese army and a beefed-up U.N. peacekeeping force.
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The political heir of the new Lebanon talks to TIME about Hizballah, democracy and what can be salvaged from the assault on his country
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Lebanese troops prepared to deploy in   south Lebanon on Thursday to take control of Hizbollah   strongholds with U.N. peacekeepers as Israeli forces gradually   withdraw after a 34-day war with the guerrillas.
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BEDDAWI CAMP, Lebanon  - They appeared as if from nowhere. They prayed and read the Koran on the streets, zig-zagged on motorbikes through the camp. Some said they steeled themselves swimming in freezing streams; but rarely did they speak to anyone.
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Shops were open, streets bustled with traffic and restaurants were packed with customers Friday in this seaside town just 25 miles south of the Lebanese border.
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Twenty-seven years after his mysterious disappearance in Libya, Imam Mousa Sadr is making a comeback to haunt relations between Beirut and Tripoli.
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Two Lebanese held hostage in Iraq for more than two months have been freed and returned home, officials said in Beirut Friday. Marwan Kassar and Mohammed Hussein, who had been working in Iraq for the Lebanese
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KHIAM, Lebanon -- Yellow Hezbollah banners flutter throughout the hilltop villages of southern Lebanon where Mohammed Ghosen, a portly 32-year-old, has helped build the party into a political and military authority over the years.
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Southern Sudan is reawakening and rebuilding after a Jan. 9 peace deal ended 22 years of civil war.
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LARNACA, Cyprus  - Hundreds of Americans and other   foreign nationals fleeing Israeli air strikes that have   pummeled Lebanon for eight days found safe haven in Cyprus on   Thursday.
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War-torn Lebanon's historic treasures&#151;including important ruins in the ancient cities of Baalbek and Tyre&#151;emerged from the recent Israel-Hezbollah conflict intact, government officials say.See photos of Lebanon's historic treasures.
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About 200,000 flag-waving, cheering Hezbollah supporters massed Thursday near the site of the former Israeli military headquarters in south Lebanon to hear their leader pledge to continue fighting until victory.
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A black coat of oil now covers the Lebanese capital's once-beautiful sandy Mediterranean shore, spilled from a power plant that was knocked down by Israeli warplanes two weeks ago.
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  TYRE, Lebanon - The fishermen in this southern Lebanese port city are back at work now that the Israeli sea embargo has been lifted.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, almost three weeks after fighting broke out.
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The Lebanese people have made remarkable progress rebuilding their small, war-shattered country over the past decade. The economy has grown past the $40 billion mark and Beirut, once known as the Paris of
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Last Sunday, Munir al-Sayed, a middle-aged Sunni Arab from the northern city of Aleppo, quietly did something he had done only once before in his life, without telling his wife or his friends.