Lebanese Army Gets Foreign Aid
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Military aid began arriving Friday after the United States said it will rush supplies to the Lebanese army
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Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.
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The European Union swept away a major hurdle to keeping the peace between Israel and Hezbollah by agreeing Friday to provide the "backbone" of a French-led peacekeeping force of 15,000 soldiers in Lebanon.
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BEIRUT, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Wednesday unveiled a $33,000 compensation package for Lebanese whose homes were destroyed in the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.
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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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Turkey, the only Muslim member of NATO and a country with close ties to both Israel and Arab states, moved closer Monday to agreeing to send troops to Lebanon, while Italy approved 2,500 troops in a boost to an expanded international force.
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Nearly 150 Lebanese soldiers have died recently in clashes with Al Qaeda-linked militants, but growing public support has lifted the Army's morale.
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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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Relief teams in Lebanon hope many of the heavily damaged buildings can be salvaged and are requesting the United Nations send more supplies for temporary repairs and to restore electricity and water services, officials said Monday.
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The United Nations has urged European countries to provide troops to a peacekeeping force in Lebanon as the Beirut government moved ahead with a historic deployment of army troops to the south to shore up a fragile truce.
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Foreign troops airdropped food and set up clean water as the massive aid effort took shape to help millions left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, whose death toll crept towards 150,000.
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BAZOURIYA, Lebanon -- There are two faces to the U.N. force today in Lebanon, ensuring a cease-fire that ended 33 days of war with Israel. One has a certain swagger: more than 4,800 soldiers, 14 French battle tanks, four 155mm artillery guns, 10 Italian amphibious assault vehicles and an array of...
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Move comes in anticipation of final assault by Lebanese army after almost two months of fighting.
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Italian troops begin arriving in Lebanon to strengthen the United Nations peacekeeping force.
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Lebanon sees a second redeployment of Syrian troops after a UN call for foreign forces to leave.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 1 -- Lebanese tanks and armored personnel carriers, backed by an artillery barrage, closed in on a radical Islamic faction based in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, collapsing a tattered cease-fire after a 13-day siege.