Israel moves troops from Syria border
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The Israeli army has decided that war with Syria is unlikely and is rotating forces out of the contested Golan Heights after months of cross-border tension, security officials say.
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Israeli forces evacuated two makeshift settlement outposts in the West Bank on Wednesday, a step to remove a major obstacle to peace talks with Palestinians
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops moved out of a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Gaza last night, the army said, ending a two-day raid that killed 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens, the largest Israeli military operation since Yasser Arafat's death last month.
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Israeli forces crossed from southern Lebanon on Sunday to begin the last phase of their withdrawal under a U.N. resolution to end a war with Hizbollah guerrillas, an Israeli security source said.
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Syria, under growing international pressure to end its long-time military presence in Lebanon, began pulling back more than 1,000 of its 20,000 troops today.
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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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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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Move comes after weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and militants
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MOSHAV ZARIT, Israel, Oct. 1 -- Israeli military officials said the army withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the cease-fire that ended a month-long war with the radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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Some 300 Syrian troops in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday as part of the ongoing redeployment that started on Tuesday.
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Syrian forces started redeploying from the outskirts of Lebanon's capital Beirut toward the eastern Syrian-Lebanese border on Tuesday, Lebanese officials said.
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AVIVIM, Israel  - Lebanese troops and an Israeli army patrol exchanged fire on their shared border on Wednesday in the first such incident since Lebanon deployed regular forces after Israel's war against Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Israel sealed off West Bank and Gaza Strip, sent reinforcements to the two areas and tightened security at Jewish settlements Thursday just hours after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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A convoy of Syrian troops leaves Lebanon, as part of a "major redeployment" by Damascus of its forces there.
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Israel pounded southern Lebanon with airstrikes and artillery and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in an explosion of violence between the neighboring countries.
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Syria began redeploying around 3,000  troops from the outskirts of Beirut toward the eastern  Syrian-Lebanese border on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to  ease U.S.-led international pressure over its influence on  Lebanon.
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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.