Marines helping with evacuation in Beirut
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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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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The Lebanese army has started evacuating families of the Islamist militants who have been fighting troops at a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said on Friday.
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An explosion has rocked a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut, but the cause of the blast is not yet known.
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The first batch of US marines has arrived in the Philippines to help in relief efforts following storms which have left up to 1,500 people dead or missing, a US military spokesman said.
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Anxious Americans hauled bulging suitcases down a rocky Lebanese beach and into the waiting hold of a U.S. Navy landing craft Friday as the accelerating U.S. evacuation moved thousands away from unrelenting Israeli airstrikes.
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Israeli ships were leaving Lebanese waters as an international naval force took up positions off the coast.
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The Syrian army carried out Saturday a limited redeployment in Lebanon, pulling army intelligence troops out of the Beirut airport, the southern suburbs of Beirut and northern Lebanon, a Lebanese army officer told AFP.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -- Camp Lejeune Marines patrolling south of Baghdad, Iraq, are getting help from British troops. The 24th Marine Exepeditionary Unit of some 2,200 troops says it is being reinforced by some
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It was a happy ending for at least one American woman trying to flee the bombardment of Lebanon. After a 10-day ordeal, Laura Gabriel left Friday with something very precious: her newly adopted baby.
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A Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq last summer and later turned up in his native Lebanon was charged Thursday with desertion. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun was charged following a five-month investigation into his June disappearance from a U.S. military camp near Fallujah, Iraq, according to a statement from the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Camp Lejeune.
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A ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from fighting in Lebanon headed to Cyprus on Monday as European governments stepped up efforts to move their nationals to safety.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  -- Relatives of Islamic fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon began leaving the besieged area Friday, according to a Muslim clergyman mediating between the militants and the army.
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Large numbers of people are in the Lebanese capital Beirut for a march in support of Syria's role in the country.
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On Scene: A ride along with peacekeepers trying to deliver humanitarian aid in South Lebanon shows how tough a fight Hizballah is putting up
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Security is tight in Beirut ahead of a rally for late PM Rafik Hariri, and the funeral of a top Hezbollah figure.
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MINIEH, Lebanon, Aug. 24 -- Sixty-three women and children were evacuated from the battle-wrecked Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on Friday, following more than three months of fighting there between the Lebanese army and members of the al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam, the Lebanese army said.