Two years after claiming to withdraw, Syria still occupies up to 180 square miles of neighboring Lebanon and smuggles arms to militants there, says a report by a Lebanese democracy group. U.S. officials, along with regional experts, say the findings of the report are credible and largely in line with U.S. intelligence.
As the list of dead soldiers grows, anger mounts in villages in northern Lebanon where the army has been locked in a deadly showdown with Islamist militants for more than two months.
MCpl. Fabio Carlone says his small, lightly armored, Puma vehicle is just the right size for patrolling the narrow, potholed lanes of southern Lebanon.
The Lebanon Area Fair will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year by doing what it does best -- offering "good, wholesome family entertainment," said Sue Werner, fair chairwoman.
MYERSTOWN - Richland won its third straight Lebanon County Legion baseball title last night, defeating Myerstown 15-6 in Game 4 to take the best-of-5 "Lefty" Grumbine Championship Series 3-1.
Miss Clawson, of Mt. Lebanon and formerly of Mt. Pleasant, a deaconess at the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh in Downtown, died Sunday, July 22, 2007, at Covenant at South Hills. She was 81.
An Israeli talks to Lebanese citizens through the border fence near Metulla in northern Israel in May 2000, one day after Israel completed its troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
-- In the past 60 days, Lebanon has witnessed unprecedented levels of violence that threaten to mortally weaken what is left of the country's institutions and governance apparatus.
BEIRUT, July 24, 2007 (AFP) - Top French diplomat Jean-Claude Cousseran met on Tuesday with political leaders in divided Lebanon as part of efforts to help break an eight-month deadlock.
Civil society groups warned that Lebanon's existence will be at risk if the political deadlock remains unsolved in the coming two months. "After the next two months, Lebanon either remains or it doesn't. We must pull our forces together and direct our energies towards the looming [presidential] election," said legal expert Ziad Baroud.