Hamas and Hezbollah have been holding three Israeli soldiers hostage for months. In response to pressure from the soldiers' families and an Egyptian mediator, a first prisoner exchange finally seems to be on the horizon.
The Israeli army said Monday it uncovered four bombs on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon and accused Hezbollah guerrillas of planting the explosives in recent days.
Thousands of Lebanese demonstrators have paralysed parts of the country, barricading roads as part of a strike aimed at toppling the government. Smoke billowed over Beirut as protesters burned tyres and flights in and out of the city were cancelled as roads to the airport were blocked. The Hezbollah-led opposition called the strike as part of its drive to dislodge the government and hold new elections.
The leader of Hezbollah presents his video biography to advertise for additional wives.
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday, did not forsee this war. -AP Ωιδεο
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he has realised it would lead to war.
Now that the guns have fallen silent and the carnage has stopped, our writhing, aching hearts for the dead, the dying and the injured of Lebanon can rest. Now that the destruction and mayhem have ceased, we can look around and begin to assess the damage, weigh the facts, analyze the causes and deduct conclusions. It is a strange war, a war like no
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They were struggling in a boy band, working the West Bank wedding circuit and dreaming of stardom. Now the five singers who make up the Northern Band have come a little closer to their goal, with help from an unwitting ally - Hezbollah guerrilla chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Hassan Dib Nasrallah, a Lebanese grocer, is a slight man with short gray whiskers. He's 54, bald and looks nothing like the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who, at 46, is full-faced with a dark beard.
'Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram. At Beirut innocent citizens like myself were forbidden access to certain areas of their own capital,' writes Michael Behe from the Metula News Agency
Israel raids Hezbollah about 60 miles north of the border, thereby violating the ceasefire agreement, in an attempt to disrupt more weapons shipments from Iran and Syria.
Iran has been attempting to rearm the Lebanon-based terror network Hezbollah since the U.N.-backed cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel took hold earlier this week, two U.S. officials told FOX News on Thursday.
Bush conveyed his strong personal support for the military offensive during a White House meeting with Olmert on May 23, according to sources familiar with the thinking of senior Israeli leaders.
The sixth Arab-Israeli war, as some have called it, has ended in the first real setback for Israel's deterrent power
An Israeli Arab Member of Knesset has accused the Israeli army of using villages and towns predominantly populated by Israeli Arabs as "shields" to escape the barrages of rockets fired by the Lebanese Hizbullah resistance group
Hezbollah refused to disarm and withdraw its fighters from the battle-scarred hills along the border with Israel on Tuesday, threatening to delay deployment of the Lebanese army and endangering a fragile cease-fire.
The IDF will have to resume operations in Lebanon if the expanded United Nations force being assembled does not fulfill its obligation to dismantle Hizbullah, an official in the Prime Minister's Office warned on Tuesday.
Israel has warned Lebanese not to return to their homes in the south until Lebanon's army and an international peacekeeping force arrive in the area.
In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks.
NABATIYE, Lebanon (CNN) -- The Israel Defense Forces will complete their pullout from southern Lebanon within 10 days, giving way to U.N. and Lebanese troops, Israel's army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said Tuesday.
About 10 Katyusha rockets were fired inside southern Lebanon late Monday, hours after a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, the Israeli military reported early Tuesday. (From CNN Live Wire)
The National Review asked a group of pundits and experts to weigh in on the winners and losers of Hezbollah/Israel conflict. They overwhelming pointed to Iran as the victor.
Israel agrees to ceasefire ...and sends more troops into Lebanon.
Heavy fighting in southern Lebanon stopped abruptly on Monday after a U.N.-brokered truce came into effect, but reports that Israeli troops killed a Hezbollah guerrilla underlined the fragility of the truce.
The ceasefire agreement was clearly written in close collaboration with Israel. It allows the IDF to continue "defensive operations" (INSIDE Lebanon...knowing Israel, "defense" will be interpreted loosely, to say the least) while Hezbollah is required to stop fighting.
The Bush Administration was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks.
The Lebanese cabinet has put off talks about disarming Hezbollah after Israel had agreed earlier to a UN proposed ceasefire due to go into effect at 5:00AM GMT. Postponement of these talks shows the area may not find a much needed respite from fighting.
It marked the first time an Israeli helicopter was shot down by Hezbollah guerrillas since the conflict began on July 12.










