U.S. sends more arms to Lebanon
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The United States sent more ammunition on Saturday to Lebanon, whose army is struggling to defeat a group of heavily armed Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Syria's president said in remarks released Sunday that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The Lebanese army shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants cornered in parts of a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday and security sources said two more soldiers were killed in the fighting.
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The U.N. force in Lebanon will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of Italian and French troops with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said Thursday.
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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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BEIJING -- China will increase its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to 1,000 and double the humanitarian aid it has pledged, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday .
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The United States will send an  additional force of about 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan this  spring to help NATO troops and Afghan security forces confront  rising Taliban violence, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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More Israeli tanks and soldiers surged into southern Lebanon on Saturday, reaching the Litani River and engaging in some of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war just hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire plan.
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Placing its chips on the besieged Lebanese government, the Bush administration is considering a large increase in aid to the Lebanese army and hoping moderate Arab governments will help, as well.
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France will greatly increase the size of   the contingent it is promising for a peacekeeping force in   southern Lebanon, possibly making it easier to recruit other   nations, officials and diplomats said on Thursday.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The United States sent military aid to Lebanon on Friday and the Lebanese army deployed extra troops to a Palestinian camp where it has been battling Islamist militants this week.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive in the coming weeks.
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Lebanon's army pressed on with an offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery Saturday, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods.
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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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The number of U.N. peacekeepers in  Lebanon has grown to about 5,000, a spokesman said on Tuesday,  reaching a level which the United Nations sees as sufficient  for Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
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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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Developments Monday in Israel's offensive against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon: