Annan finds 13 incidents of illicit arms in Lebanon
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The United Nations has  documented 13 incidents of illegal weapons in southern Lebanon  since early September, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said  on Friday, calling Beirut's border monitoring deficient.
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The U.N. Security Council expressed great concern at targeted assassinations in Lebanon and elsewhere on Thursday, the anniversary of the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister and the day of the funeral of an assassinated Hezbollah leader.
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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 ...
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BEIRUT, Nov. 25 -- Lebanon's fragile government, defying warnings from Hezbollah, on Saturday approved an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, an enormously symbolic step for a country paralyzed by division and anticipation.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a report Wednesday strongly suggesting that Syria has helped smuggle weapons to the Shiite movement Hezbollah and other armed groups, and that it sponsored Islamic militants involved in a military confrontation with the Lebanese army...
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The United Nations on Tuesday urged Israel to hand over detailed information about cluster munitions it used in Lebanon during the war with Hezbollah, saying at least 350,000 unexploded bomblets still pose a deadly risk.
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The U.N. secretary-general called Wednesday for an end to "foreign interference" that has exacerbated Lebanon's political crisis and said he had received more information that Syria was involved in sending weapons and fighters across the border.
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More than 13,000 people were killed in countries across South and Southeast Asia, with thousands more missing or unreachable.
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"The UNIFIL mission has been very important in helping to bring about an end to the Lebanon war of last summer and helping to bring security so that the people of Lebanon could return to normal life"  A bomb apparently targeting a U.N. personnel carrier exploded by the side of a road in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing five peacekeepers and injuring three, officials said.Spanish Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said the five included three Colombians and two Spaniards. The three injured peacekeepers were also from Spain, he said.'The mostly likely cause of this attack has been an explosion of a car bomb or device activated by remote control. It has been a premeditated attack,' he told reporters in Madrid, ruling out that a land mine caused the blast. Read more
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The inquiry into the killing of   a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to   help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and   other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N.   Security Council on Friday.
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Attacks that have targeted prominent Lebanese, most of them opponents of Syria:
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Â·  Attempted breakout leaves 32 militants deadÂ· Lebanon's worst violent episode since civil war
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday the Security Council&#39;s call for all foreign forces to be removed from Lebanon and all militias in Lebanon to be disarmed &quot;have not been met,&quot; a finding that places Lebanon and Syria in violation of the council&#39;s
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LONDON, Sept. 14 -- Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hezbollah of "indiscriminate" and deliberate killings of Israeli civilians during the recent armed conflict in Lebanon, three weeks after accusing Israel of violating international law with "disproportionate" attacks on Lebanese...
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Kofi Annan calls for probe into civil rights abuses as machete gangs and arsonists settle old scores
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed UN troops arrested dozens of men Sunday in a sometimes bloody conclusion to a countrywide disarmament program, days after a fresh burst of violent in the war-battered West African nation.
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TEL AVIV, Israel  - Israel has arrested 13 U.N.  employees and plans to indict them for "suspected links to  terrorism," an Israeli army officer said Tuesday.