Looking back warily, Israel exits Lebanon
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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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The brown sedan kicks up dirt as it speeds along the small trail and crosses the border from Syria with no security forces in sight &#151; another reminder how hard it will be for Lebanon to keep weapons from being smuggled to rearm Hezbollah.
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Hundreds of Lebanese limped north to safety Monday after weeks spent trapped by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah &#151; including the war's bloodiest ground battle. Some had survived on candy and dirty water. Two died on the road out.
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Israel is hit in a twin rocket attack from Lebanon, in the first strike since the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah.
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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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JERUSALEM -- Israel withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early today, the army said, fulfilling a key condition of the UN cease-fire that ended a monthlong war with Hezbollah guerrillas. Military officials said the last soldier exited Lebanon just after 2:30 a.m.
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Seven months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s astonishing announcement of a plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ignited a tiny spark of hope among people searching for some way out of another ghastly intifada.
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Westerners fled by land, sea and air Monday as Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon briefly and Hezbollah rockets knocked down a three-story house in northern Israel. However, there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front to end the worst fighting in 24 years.
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Israeli soldiers returning from the front in Lebanon talk of battling an intelligent, well-prepared and ruthless guerrilla army whose fighters don't seem to fear death.
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The resignation of their billionaire Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri, has left the Lebanese worried about the future of their country as it becomes entrenched in a stand-off with the UN.
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TYRE, Lebanon  - Civilians fled battered villages   in southern Lebanon on Monday after Israel said it would halt   its air strikes but the Jewish state pledged to step up its   offensive to root out Hizbollah guerrillas.
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip, June 20 -- Israel allowed Palestinians with severe health problems and foreign-passport holders to leave Gaza on Wednesday in a flight that reflected the humanitarian challenges that have arisen in the days since Hamas's violent takeover of the strip.
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LebanonÂs seeming slide toward civil conflict is a flashpoint for tensions in the Middle East.
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Israel says it has withdrawn all troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s last days on earth, a subject of intense interest throughout much of the world, have evoked mixed emotions in the country that was his life&#39;s obsession: Israel.
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Carrying luggage and infants, a couple hundred Lebanese and foreigners stepped around craters left behind from Israeli airstrikes and debris from a destroyed immigration office as they fled war-torn Lebanon for Syria on Tuesday.
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Israeli bombs fall, gunmen feud in the streets. A trip to the 28-mile sliver of sand where dreams of peace are fading fast