Israel, Hezbollah fight to a draw
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Despite its desperate 11th-hour push, the mighty Israeli military fought to a virtual stalemate against a small group of Hezbollah guerillas as a cease-fire took effect.
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Israel grabbed strategic high ground in south Lebanon on Thursday but delayed a major push northward, as diplomats cited progress toward agreement on a U.N. cease-fire resolution that could soon go to a vote.
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Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants fought sporadically at a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday and a Palestinian force took up positions to defuse tension at another camp in the south.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confronted Likud party rebels with a pledge to put the good of Israel first Wednesday as he battled to avoid an embarrassing defeat over his Gaza pullout plan.
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Israeli troops punched into south Lebanon on Wednesday as warplanes flattened houses and buildings including one thought to hold Hezbollah's top leaders, intensifying an offensive despite mounting international pressure and a Lebanese appeal to spare the country further death and devastation.
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It&#39;s a hugely lopsided fight, pitting Israeli troops with high-tech arms and precise intelligence against untrained Palestinian gunmen relying on homemade weapons.
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Palestinian leaders on Monday tried to end a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up in a refugee camp - the battleground for Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war.
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A massive wave of guerrilla rockets pounded northern Israel in a matter of minutes Thursday, killing eight people hours before Hezbollah's leader offered to stop the attacks if Israel ends its airstrikes. With four soldiers killed in Lebanon, it was the deadliest day for Israel in its two-front war.
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The Lebanese government justified Hezbollah&#39;s launching of a drone into Israeli air space, saying no other steps, including appeals to international bodies, have been effective at stopping Israeli incursions into Lebanese airspace.
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Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile barrages without letup for a fifth day Sunday, as the war that has suddenly flared in the Middle East showed no sign of easing. Hezbollah rockets struck deep inside Israel, killing eight people in the northern city of Haifa, and Israel answered with even more lethal blows across Lebanon and into the Bekaa Valley near Syria.
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Hezbollah launched its deepest strikes yet into Israel on Wednesday, firing a record number of more than 160 rockets. An Israeli-American was killed as he fled for home by bicycle, and a stray rocket hit the West Bank for the first time.
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With no clear cease-fire line, any village or hilltop in southern Lebanon is a potential flash point that could bring down the truce between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.
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An encounter between a U.N. tank patrol and an Israeli army unit near the border underlines the uncertainty in south Lebanon, with Israel reluctant to pull out the last of its troops and Hezbollah warning of impatience with Israeli truce "violations."
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Israeli troops battled Hizbollah   guerrillas across southern Lebanon on Sunday and air strikes   battered Beirut's suburbs as the Israeli army pressed on with   its offensive in the hours until a U.N.-brokered truce begins.
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Hezbollah fired its biggest and deepest volley of rockets into Israel on Wednesday as Israel pursued the guerrillas with 8,000 soldiers on the ground and heavy bombing. With fighting in its fourth week and diplomatic efforts stalled, the region braced for a bitter and long war.
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Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday &#151; including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.