Report: Turkey to deploy troops in Lebanon
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Turkey will send its first deployment of peacekeepers to Lebanon next week by dispatching about 260 soldiers to join the international force, private NTV television reported on Thursday.
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ANKARA, Turkey, Sept. 5 -- Turkey agreed Tuesday to send troops to Lebanon to monitor a tense cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, becoming the first Muslim country with diplomatic ties with Israel to do so.
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Lebanese government forces have been deployed along the border with Israel for the first time in decades.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The Turkish military has ramped up military operations along the southern border with Iraq, with aircraft reportedly bombarding the mountainous terrain on Wednesday, part of a growing confrontation that threatens to open a new northern front in the Iraq war.
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A third batch of Indonesians left Saturday to join a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, bringing the Asian nation's Middle East deployment to more than 830 troops.
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Two military transport planes said to be carrying US military aid for the Lebanese army reportedly arrive in Beirut.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said his country is intent on sending peacekeeping troops to Lebanon, but is still awaiting the green light from the United Nations.
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 31 -- The Israeli army turned over a small border area in southern Lebanon to Lebanese and foreign troops Thursday, a symbolic move paving the way for U.N. peacekeepers to go into the volatile region.
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France will send its first troop battalion and a shipment of tanks and heavy armor for the strengthened U.N. force in Lebanon next week, the French defense minister said Thursday.
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Lebanon said on Tuesday Syria would  redeploy some 3,000 troops from the outskirts of Beirut east  toward the Syrian-Lebanon border, in an apparent bid to ease  U.S.-led pressure over its influence on Lebanon.
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China plans to send a contingent of  peacekeeping troops to Lebanon and is consulting the United  Nations on the details, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman  said on Monday.
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Syria began redeploying around 3,000  troops from the outskirts of Beirut toward the eastern  Syrian-Lebanese border on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to  ease U.S.-led international pressure over its influence on  Lebanon.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered the military to prepare to deploy up to 3,000 soldiers to the conflict-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, the Independent on Sunday reports.
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Turkey on Tuesday became the first Muslim country with diplomatic ties to Israel to pledge troops to an expanding international peacekeeping force that will monitor a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Germany's cabinet approved plans on   Wednesday to send naval and air forces to Lebanon, and Russia   said it would dispatch troops to help rebuild roads and bridges   destroyed in Israel's war against Hizbollah guerrillas.
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President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that France will send 2,000 soldiers to southern Lebanon and hopes to retain command of the U.N. peacekeeping force, as a top European Union official said international troops could start deploying within days.
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The United States called Monday for the quick deployment of an expanded U.N. force in southern Lebanon and said a new U.N. resolution may be needed later to focus on disarming Hezbollah militants and enforcing an arms embargo.