Lebanon confirms border clash with Israelis
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The Lebanese army said its soldiers had exchanged fire with an Israeli force on Wednesday on their shared border but there were no Lebanese casualties.
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Israel massed tanks and troops on the border Friday hours after calling up reserves, as the army announced plans for a ground operation to destroy Hezbollah's tunnels, hideouts and weapons stashes.
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Hizbollah guerrillas captured two   Israeli soldiers in attacks from Lebanon on Israeli border   posts on Wednesday, Hizbollah television said.
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LebanonÂs seeming slide toward civil conflict is a flashpoint for tensions in the Middle East.
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Israel bombarded Lebanon for a sixth day   on Monday and dismissed as premature a U.N. proposal for an   international peacekeeping force to help end the worst fighting   across the Israeli-Lebanese border in more than 20 years.
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Lebanese anti-aircraft guns fired at Israeli warplanes over southern Lebanon on Wednesday, a military spokesman said, indicating that Lebanon's army is taking a new assertiveness toward Israel.
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KFAR SHOUBA, Lebanon  - Lebanon's Hizbollah  guerrillas attacked an Israeli army patrol in a border attack  on Sunday, killing an Israeli officer, the group's television  station said.
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Israel would be ready to call a cease-fire with Hezbollah if its captured soldiers are returned, the Lebanese army deploys along the countries&#039; shared border and the future disarmament of the militia can be guaranteed, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
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The Israeli army left all but one divided border town in Lebanon Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the truce.
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An encounter between a U.N. tank patrol and an Israeli army unit near the border underlines the uncertainty in south Lebanon, with Israel reluctant to pull out the last of its troops and Hezbollah warning of impatience with Israeli truce "violations."
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MOSHAV ZARIT, Israel, Oct. 1 -- Israeli military officials said the army withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the cease-fire that ended a month-long war with the radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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Israel bombed and shelled southern Lebanon and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers. The fighting killed eight Israeli soldiers and three Lebanese.
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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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Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday. Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees.
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The UN has been informed of &quot;movements of arms&quot; on the Syria-Lebanon border though it says these have not been verified, the French foreign ministry has said.
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Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut&#039;s airport and two Lebanese army air bases near the Syrian border, and imposing a naval blockade. More than 50 people have died in violence following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
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Lebanese army troops fired on Israeli forces as they scoured a border area for explosives on Wednesday, Israel's Army Radio reported.