U.S. Military Aid Begins to Reach Lebanon
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 25 -- U.S. military aid began arriving in Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese officials said, in order to resupply government troops battling a militant group in northern Lebanon whose leader claims links to al-Qaeda.
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U.S. Marines ferried 1,200 Americans from a Beirut beach to the USS Nashville on Thursday &#151; the first Marine operation in Lebanon in more than two decades.
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US planes bring fresh military supplies to Lebanon, as a stand-off between the army and militants continues.
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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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The Israeli army began handing over positions to the U.N. early Thursday, stepping up its withdrawal from southern Lebanon after the Lebanese government agreed to deploy troops near Israel's border for the first time in 40 years.
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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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A few years ago, American aid to Lebanon was measured in the number of dairy cows a U.S. program gave to farmers. Now it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, plus military help, as Washington tries to prop up a government seen as threatened by Iran and Syria.
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France mobilized Friday to send urgent aid to Lebanon, the Red Cross managed to get relief supplies to the south &#151; and Israel agreed to allow a safe corridor crucial to ensuring that food and medicine reaches those in need.
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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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The United Nations sent relief supplies to the besieged southern Lebanese town of Qana on Monday and to the coastal city of Tyre, officials said. However, U.N. officials added that convoys elsewhere in Lebanon are suspended because of the fragile security situation.
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TRIPOLI -- The United States and Arab allies rushed military aid to Lebanon yesterday, boosting its strength before a possible army assault to crush Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Italian troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers landed Sunday in Lebanon as the arrival of the first large contingent of international peacekeepers entered its second day after being delayed by rough seas.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops advanced towards fortified positions of Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday in what political sources said was the start of a final assault to root out the gunmen.
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The United States and Arab allies rushed military aid to Lebanon Friday, boosting its strength ahead of a possible army assault to crush al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.
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A team of U.S. Marines has arrived in this Red Sea port to assist in security at a U.S. Consulate that came under attack this week by Islamic militants, an American Embassy official said Thursday.
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More than 200 French military engineers  landed at Beirut port on Saturday, the advance group of a  battalion which will reinforce U.N. peacekeepers in south  Lebanon and open the way for Israel to pull out all its troops.
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Dozens of French soldiers arrived Sunday to help the Lebanese army rebuild bridges that were destroyed or damaged by Israeli airstrikes during the 34-day fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas.