Lebanon's postwar reconstruction far from complete
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BINT JBEIL, Lebanon  - Most of the old town of Bint Jbeil still lies in dusty ruins a year after war erupted in Lebanon between Israel and Shi'ite Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Tiny Lebanon is enduring, despite snowballing violence and a persistent political crisis.
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Israel's troops kept hold of a Lebanese border village and its aircraft prowled the Lebanese skies Monday, prompting the Beirut government and Hezbollah to dismiss the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon as "incomplete."
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In the 1970s, Yasser Arafat's PLO reigned supreme in Lebanon. Today, the guerrillas are confined to a dozen Palestinian refugee camps across the country.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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One of the principal causes of the failure of all previous peace efforts has been the neglect of the grassroots. The Oslo agreement never delivered concrete âpeace dividends&#39; which ordinary individuals could point to.
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BINT JBEIL, Lebanon  - Like a small black   football, it lies in the dirt not far from Haitham Daaboul's   front door in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
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The Israeli pullout from Lebanon was unlikely to be completed before the weekend, a senior army officer said Wednesday.
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limit civilian casualties as it steps up attacks on its neighbor, a promise that fell short of Beirut&#039;s calls for a cease-fire.
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LebanonÂs seeming slide toward civil conflict is a flashpoint for tensions in the Middle East.
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Lebanon's worst internal violence for two decades is in danger of spreading throughout the country.
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The Arab League has made progress toward solving the political crisis in Lebanon, although it has yet to achieve a breakthrough, the league's Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.
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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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Relief teams in Lebanon hope many of the heavily damaged buildings can be salvaged and are requesting the United Nations send more supplies for temporary repairs and to restore electricity and water services, officials said Monday.
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Once again, Lebanon's children are seeing what they shouldn't &#151; visions of death and destruction that may scar them for life. And those are the survivors.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Lebanon went through such a terrible civil war that after 14 years it still remains so politically fragile that when it finds a political formula that works, it changes the laws to suit the politicians.
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BEIRUT -- Few places seem to indicate how far this country has come from civil war than the sunny hipness of the Virgin Megastore that fills a blond-stone building in the heart of the new Beirut. Lebanon's largest mosque is being built nearby amid a cluster of lovely churches, a sign that the religious tolerance shattered by years of fighting between Christian and Muslim militias in these same streets is on the rise.