Beirut family struggles with war's legacy
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The Monitor revisits a couple whose daughter and her family died in an Israeli airstrike during the war with Hizbullah.
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The family of assassinated minister Pierre Gemayel helped build the Maronite Christian minority in Lebanon into a dominant political force.
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JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- It was his wife's miscarriage that finally drove Ali Abdulrazak Lafta to flee Iraq's war for the life of a refugee in Lebanon -- another war zone, but one much more manageable for his family.
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Lebanon's worst internal violence for two decades is in danger of spreading throughout the country.
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BEIRUT -- For 38-year-old businesswoman Susan Hakim, the concussive slap and roar of the bomb exploding beneath her windows in Beirut's luxury shopping district came with the predictability of an item scrawled in her datebook.
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In a marker of the Iraq warâs longevity, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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Women with postchildbirth complications are often ostracized by their own families, but one man took his wife through a war zone to get her treatment.
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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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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One hospital in the heart of Beirut will stop taking new patients while another in the south &#151; full of war wounded &#151; expects to close soon.
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By Hardev Kaur  THE damage inflicted on Lebanon is unbelievable. It is not just the damage to vital infrastructure but also the environment, the economy and the unseen dangers that threaten the health of its people.
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One family's allegiance to Hizbullah reveals much about the group's support and how it draws fighters.
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Some 13 years after the war's end, Lebanon still does not know how to deal with its memories of a 15-year period of devastation in which about 7 percent of the population was killed, 10 percent seriously injured and up to 25 percent forced to move.
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Tiny Lebanon is enduring, despite snowballing violence and a persistent political crisis.
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Tears and anger at funeral on fifth day of Beirut protest 05-12-2006 / 19:59 A sea of angry mourners converged on southern Beirut for the funeral of a young Shiite murdered amid mass rallies aimed at toppling ...Comment