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Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at 74
In a funeral free of the usual pageantry and party politics of the nation he long sought to unite, Lebanon laid its Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah to rest yesterday in the mosque from where his sermons of resistance and religion inspired millions of Muslims worldwide. |
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Lebanon's ruling coalition claims election victory over Hezbollah
In a boost to Western policy in one of the region’s strategically vital countries Lebanon’s US-backed ruling coalition claimed a decisive election victory last night in a dramatic reversal of fortunes after polls showed it losing its slim majority to a Hezbollah-led coalition, backed by Syria and Iran.
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In Lebanon’s most significant military upgrade since the end of the Civil War two decades ago, Russia has said it will supply the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) with ten MiG-29 fighter jets, trumping faltering American efforts to bolster the LAF and challenging Israel’s air dominance over the country for the first time. |
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Samir Qantar, one of the Arab world’s icons of armed struggle, set foot on Lebanese soil yesterday to a hero’s welcome after being freed from thirty years imprisonment in Israel by a Hezbollah prisoner swap, which the Iranian-backed group said vindicated its use of arms. |
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Lebanon's new president, striving to heal two years of violent rifts centered on the status of Hezbollah's arms that recently tipped the country to the brink of civil war, yesterday called for a new national defence strategy to include the Iranian-backed militant group. |
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Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its opposition allies yesterday escalated their armed take-over of key areas of Lebanon held by the Western-backed government, gaining control of the Druze heartlands of Mount Lebanon and clashing with pro-government Sunni fighters in the northern port city of Tripoli. |
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Lebanon’s crisis deepened yesterday as the Western-backed government, facing collapse after Shia opposition fighters loyal to the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hezbollah routed their Sunni counterparts and laid siege to Muslim areas of Beirut, vowed to confront the militant group over the issue of its arms. |
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When the lethal fragments of shells began to
explode all around him, a terrified Yousef Abu Radi wrapped his arms around his
ten-year-old sister Jinan to try and protect her. |
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Reconstruction's strange bedfellows: Sectarian divisions erode in the rubble of Lebanon
Abdullah Hassan Nasrallah proudly displayed a check for $11,000 to repair his home, which was damaged in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The money came not from the elected Lebanese government in Beirut, nor Jihad al Binaa, Hezbollah's construction firm, nor even Iran, Hezbollah's strategic Shiite ally. It came from Qatar, a Sunni Gulf state that hosts a major U.S. military base and maintains trade relations with Israel. |
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