The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to keep peacekeepers in Lebanon for another 12 months, recognition that the country remains unstable more than a year after Israel's war with Hezbollah.
The UN Security Council Friday extended for another year the mandate of the UN's peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, strengthened after the Israeli-Hezbollah war in August 2006.
The families of Islamist fighters besieged in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon were evacuated by the army on Friday, opening the way for a possible final military assault on the militants.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the mandate of the 13,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon and called for a permanent cease-fire and long-term solution to last summer's Israel-Hezbollah war.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the mandate of the 13,600-member U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon and called for a permanent cease-fire and long-term solution to last summer's Israel-Hezbollah war.
The families of Islamist fighters besieged in a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon for three months were being evacuated from the battered camp on Friday, an army spokesman told AFP.
The families of Islamist militants battling Lebanese troops for the past three months began leaving a battered Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday, a military source said.
The families of Islamist fighters besieged in a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon for three months are set to be evacuated from the battered camp on Friday.
A deal was reached with Islamic extremists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon to allow their families to leave the besieged area, a Muslim clergyman and a senior military official said Friday.
Islamist fighters in a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have reestablished contact with Palestinian clerics over plans to evacuate civilians, a spokesman for the clerics told AFP on Friday.