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A community portal about Lebanon with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the... [more]
A community portal about Lebanon with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south. The flag of Lebanon features the Lebanon Cedar in green against a white backdrop, with two horizontal red stripes on the top and bottom. Due to its sectarian diversity, Lebanon follows a special political system, known as confessionalism, meant to distribute power as evenly as possible among different sects.
Earlier this week the London daily newspaper, Al-Hayat, revealed that a number of factions in Lebanon are recruiting and training child soldiers.
While the factions and youth movements deny providing the children with military training, some children boast to their friends that they are well acquainted with the use of arms because they have received military training from certain factions.
The following chilling account given by a woman after the May 2008 clashes in Beirut, leaves little...
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Part One Franklin Lamb Martyr's Square Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut "Our Resistance continues, the Sacred Cause of all people of good will endures, and the Dream of our full Return shall never die!" -14 year old Fairouz Husseini, Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut, Lebanon On September 16, 2008, at precisely 10:30 am, Fairouz Husseini and a gathering of survivors, relatives and friends of the Sabra-Shatila massacre victims, some foreign delegations, students, NGO...
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Parallel to the visit this morning in Lebanon of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, the Lebanese army prevented with force some hundreds of human rights activists and relatives of Lebanese detained for years in Syrian prisons from demonstrating in Beirut (picture above) According to Lebanon's official news agency NNA, some hundreds of activists members of SOLIDE, the association of the relatives of the Lebanese 'missing in Syria's prisons', gathered along the road leading from Beirut...
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Children of Islamist prisoners detained in Roumieh protest in front of the United Nations headquarters (ESCWA) in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, 19 August 2008. About 200 women and children supporters of Islamist groups protested in the Lebanese capital Beirut demanding the release of scores of prisoners suspected of plotting or carrying out militant attacks that fought a 15-week battle in 2007 with the army in and around the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared north of Tripoli...
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Fierce clashes erupted Monday between rival Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in south Lebanon with one person reported slain, Lebanese and Palestinian sources said.
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Munir Maqdah, the Fatah commander in the camp who heads a multi-factional security committee, named the dead man as Ahmed Al Hassan of the Islamist Jund Al Sham group.
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"Initial reports say he was killed," the official said. Al-Beqaai was a member of the Islamist group Jund Al Sham.
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The Lebanon Mason & Monroe Railroad, which provides themed train rides in Warren County, will finish the year based in Lebanon and then likely move down the line -- in light of an inspection that demands ...
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October is a busy month for the Lebanon Parks Department. Water aerobics for adults classes began Monday at the Lebanon High School pool.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation _ a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to ...
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The United States voiced concern over Syria's military build-up at its northern border and said the recent massive bomb attack in Damascus must not be used as a pretext to get its forces back into Lebanon.
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Fire investigators will soon be on the scene of a mill fire at the Champion Mill in Lebanon.
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A tripartite meeting, including army officials from Lebanon, Israel and the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon , discussed the implementation of UN resolution 1701 and the demarcation of the blue line, ...
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BEIRUT: Energy and Water Minister Alan Tabourian said on Monday that the widely hoped-for delivery of Egyptian electricity to Lebanon depends to a great extent on prices.
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