Small Syrian force withdraws from Lebanon as part of redeployment
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About 300 Syrian soldiers in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday as part of a partial troop withdrawal that began two days ago, Lebanese security officials said.
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Syria, under intense pressure to quit  Lebanon, pulled out its security forces from three key  positions in Beirut and north Lebanon on Saturday and  redeployed them in eastern Lebanon.
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Pakistan on Wednesday hailed Syria&#39;s limited troop pullback from Lebanon as a step in the right direction. &quot;Pakistan welcomes the decision taken by Syria to withdraw part of its troops from Lebanon,&quot; foreign office spokesman Masood Khan said.
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Syria said on Wednesday it was suspending diplomatic cooperation with France on ending the political crisis in Lebanon, after similar action by Paris.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 1 -- Lebanese tanks and armored personnel carriers, backed by an artillery barrage, closed in on a radical Islamic faction based in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, collapsing a tattered cease-fire after a 13-day siege.
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Syrian soldiers dismantled their camps in the hills above Beirut on Wednesday amid Lebanese and foreign criticism that their pullback will not diminish Syria's political dominance of Lebanon.
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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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Hundreds of Syrian soldiers stationed in the hills near Lebanon&#39;s capital began dismantling their bases Tuesday in an effort to appease a UN Security Council demand that all 20,000 Syrian troops leave the country.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday dismissed Syrian moves towards redeployment in Lebanon. &quot;We are not seeing any significant change in the Syrian position,&quot; he told Israel Radio.
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The ruling party newspaper in Syria said on Wednesday a decision to redeploy some troops within Lebanon was not linked to relations with Washington and could be reversed if necessary in future.
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The UN Security Council is again urging Syria to withdraw its remaining troops from neighboring Lebanon. The panel of 15 Tuesday also asked UN Secretary-General
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Syria has withdrawn some of its troops from three key positions in Lebanon, according to Lebanese officials. They say Syrian soldiers have left the northern town of Batrun, as well as Beirut&#39;s southern suburbs and airport.
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Syrian military units withdrew from Lebanon in the early hours of today (Thursday) morning in the framework of a large- scale redeployment operation by the Syrian forces.
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Syria&#39;s decision to pull back some of its forces from hills near Beirut, an apparent attempt to deflect international pressure to get its army out of Lebanon altogether, was met with caution, skepticism and concern that the move may not end Damascus
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and international peacekeepers under a U.N. resolution to end a bloody war with Hizbollah guerrillas.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted skeptically on Wednesday to a redeployment of Syrian troops in Lebanon, saying that the move did not mean any real change in Syrian policy.
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The Israeli army turned over a small border area in south Lebanon to Lebanese and foreign troops Thursday, a symbolic move paving the way for U.N. peacekeepers to go into the volatile area.