U.N. force in Lebanon getting weaponry
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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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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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Lebanese troops inched toward Islamic militant strongholds in a north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday as mediators hinted at a possible cease-fire deal that includes the disarmament of the al-Qaida-inspired militants.
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The United Nations sent relief supplies to the besieged southern Lebanese town of Qana on Monday and to the coastal city of Tyre, officials said. However, U.N. officials added that convoys elsewhere in Lebanon are suspended because of the fragile security situation.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon  said Israel ended its naval blockade on Lebanon on Friday after  an international naval force became operational off the  Lebanese coast.
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Lebanon's army pressed on with an offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery Saturday, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods.
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For Israel, the U.N. cease-fire deal is far from perfect. A U.N. force deploying in south Lebanon as part of the truce will have trouble keeping Hezbollah at bay for long or prevent the Iranian-supplied guerrillas from rearming, critics said, pointing to past failures of international peacekeepers.
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The United Nations said Friday that foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - U.N. peacekeepers will pursue their mission in south Lebanon despite a car bomb attack that killed six members of a Spanish battalion, the UNIFIL force's commander said on Monday.
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after Italy and Turkey moved to join the international force there.
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Two military transport planes said to be carrying US military aid for the Lebanese army reportedly arrive in Beirut.
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France is quietly preparing to play a tougher role in the strengthened U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, rolling out hefty tanks, powerful artillery, and sophisticated radar systems to pinpoint artillery ...
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 25 -- U.S. military aid began arriving in Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese officials said, in order to resupply government troops battling a militant group in northern Lebanon whose leader claims links to al-Qaeda.
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MAROUN A-RAS, Lebanon -- UN troops sent tanks and armor yesterday to a tense area along the frontier with Israel to try to determine whether an Israeli bulldozer crossed into Lebanon, sparking the first shootout since last summer's Hezbollah-Israel war.
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Six weeks after the end of the Lebanon war, the militant Hezbollah group is facing little on-the-ground pressure to give up its weapons and disarm &#151; despite a U.N. cease-fire resolution demanding just that.
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Security along the Lebanon-Syria border is too lax to prevent arms smuggling and Lebanon should quickly establish a mobile force to intercept any weapons, a U.N.-appointed team said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.