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Israel tests the Arrow -- a missile defence system ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - Israel tests the Arrow -- a missile defence system designed to intercept rockets fired from Lebanon, Iran and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Photo:Sven Nackstrand/AFP

Cars drive past a model of a rocket used by Hezbollah ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Cars drive past a model of a rocket used by Hezbollah fighters displayed in Uzai, southern Beirut, August 2007. Hezbollah now has three times more rockets than it had when Israel went to war with the Lebanese militia two years ago, Israeli public radio cited intelligence officials as telling a cabinet meeting. Photo:Anwar Amro/AFP

Lebanese men stand in line in front of an ATM ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - Lebanese men stand in line in front of an ATM machine in Sidon, 2006. Lebanese bankers being sued by Israelis in a US court for allegedly supporting the Shiite Hezbollah group have said they are the target of slander and insisted that they are committed to high standards. Photo:MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP

A Lebanese resident tries to help a wounded man shot in his ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese resident tries to help a wounded man shot in his car in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 9, 2008. At least two people were killed and 41 wounded on Wednesday in renewed sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second largest city Tripoli, security sources said. REUTERS/ Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

Gunmen take cover in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Gunmen take cover in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 9, 2008. At least two people were killed and 41 wounded on Wednesday in renewed sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second largest city Tripoli, security sources said. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

Gunmen walk past Lebanese soldiers on armoured personnel carriers ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Gunmen walk past Lebanese soldiers on armoured personnel carriers in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 9, 2008. At least two people were killed and 41 wounded on Wednesday in renewed sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second largest city Tripoli, security sources said. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

A gunman takes his position in Bab Tibbaneh district area during ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:41:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A gunman takes his position in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 9, 2008. At least two people were killed and 41 wounded on Wednesday in renewed sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second largest city Tripoli, security sources said. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

Smoke rises from a burnt apartment in Bab Tibbaneh district ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Smoke rises from a burnt apartment in Bab Tibbaneh district area during clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 9, 2008. At least two people were killed and 41 wounded on Wednesday in renewed sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second largest city Tripoli, security sources said. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

File picture shows Lebanese troops on patrol ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:24:00 GMT

(AFP) - File picture shows Lebanese troops on patrol in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli in June. Two people were killed and 32 wounded in overnight clashes between rival sectarian camps in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security official told AFP on Wednesday. Photo:Joseph Barrak/AFP

U.S. rock singer Patti Smith performs during the annual Byblos ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:21:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. rock singer Patti Smith performs during the annual Byblos International Festival July 8, 2008. REUTERS/ Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)

U.S. rock singer Patti Smith and her band perform during the ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:10:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. rock singer Patti Smith and her band perform during the annual Byblos International Festival at Lebanon's historic town of Byblos July 8, 2008. REUTERS/Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)

A Lebanese Hezbollah supporter holds the party's ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Lebanese Hezbollah supporter holds the party's yellow flag in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh on July 4. About 60 Israeli victims of the 2006 Lebanon war have filed a 100 million dollar lawsuit in a US court against five Lebanese banks for their alleged support of the Hezbollah militant group, their lawyers said Tuesday. Photo:Mahmoud Zayat/AFP

U.S. rock singer Patti Smith is seen projected on a screen against ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:02:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. rock singer Patti Smith is seen projected on a screen against a backdrop of the citadel of Lebanon's historic town of Byblos during a concert July 8, 2008. REUTERS/Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)

U.S. rock singer Patti Smith performs at the annual Byblos International ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. rock singer Patti Smith performs at the annual Byblos International Festival in Lebanon's historic town of Byblos July 8, 2008. REUTERS/ Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)

A Lebanese man stands next to a national flag ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:54:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Lebanese man stands next to a national flag on the balcony of his apartment in the northern city of Tripoli in May 2008. Five people were wounded in violent clashes in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli late Tuesday, a security official told AFP. Photo:Ramzi Haidar/AFP

Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini looks through a pair ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:05:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini looks through a pair of binoculars during a visit to Misgav Am observation point near the Israel-Lebanon border with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni (not pictured) July 8, 2008. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (ISRAEL)

Israelis survey a damaged building, following a Katyusha-style ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:57:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Israelis survey a damaged building, following a Katyusha-style rocket attack in the northern Israeli town of Safed, July 13, 2006. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman

Israeli soldiers recover Lebanese fighters' bodies ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:59:00 GMT

(AFP) - Israeli soldiers recover Lebanese fighters' bodies in a cemetery at the Amiad army base in northern Israel. Israel signed an undertaking in front of UN officials on Monday to go ahead with a proposed prisoner swap with Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman said. Photo:Menahem Kahana/AFP

A Palestinian boy (L) holds a picture depicting Lebanese prisoner ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:20:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Palestinian boy (L) holds a picture depicting Lebanese prisoner Samir Qantar during a protest in Gaza City calling for the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails July 7, 2008. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah

A Palestinian boy holds a picture depicting Lebanese prisoner ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Palestinian boy holds a picture depicting Lebanese prisoner Samir Qantar during a protest in Gaza City calling for the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails July 7, 2008. Israel will begin exhuming bodies of Hezbollah fighters on Monday ahead of a planned swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group, which is holding two soldiers, an Israeli military spokesman said. Qantar, who is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman as well as a man and his 4-year-old daughter during a 1979 raid on the northern coastal town of Nahariya, is expected to be a part of the swap. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah (GAZA)

An Israeli soldier walks past markings for graves at a cemetery ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:53:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An Israeli soldier walks past markings for graves at a cemetery for enemy casualties in an Israeli military base near the northern city of Safed July 6, 2008. The remains buried at the cemetery are expected to be a part of a deal to exchange prisoners with Lebanon's Hezbollah in the coming weeks. REUTERS/Dror Artzi/Jinipix (ISRAEL) ISRAEL OUT MAGAZINES OUT

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora (L) meets Lebanese opposition ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:58:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora (L) meets Lebanese opposition Christian leader Michel Aoun in Lebanon July 5, 2008. REUTERS/Handout (LEBANON) QUALITY FROM SOURCE

A Lebanese soldier sits on an armoured personnel carrier in ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese soldier sits on an armoured personnel carrier in front of a giant poster of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in Beirut May 28, 2008. Lebanese leaders are close to a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country's political crisis, political sources said on Saturday. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi

A Lebanese man gets flags ready at a workshop in Nabatiyeh in ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese man gets flags ready at a workshop in Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon July 4, 2008 as part of preparations for celebrations to mark the return of Lebanese prisoners held in Israel. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)

A Lebanese man works on banners at a workshop in Nabatiyeh in ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:23:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese man works on banners at a workshop in Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon July 4, 2008 as part of preparations for celebrations to mark the return of Lebanese prisoners held in Israel. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)

A video grab from footage from the Lebanese Broadcasting ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - A video grab from footage from the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation showing what the station claimed was an image of captured Israeli air force navigator Ron Arad in 2006. Israel received a report from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia that Arad an Israeli airman reported missing in Lebanon since 1986 has been dead for more than 10 years. Photo:null/AFP

A Lebanese woman in the village of Shahour walks past a house ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:26:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese woman in the village of Shahour walks past a house that was damaged by an earthquake that hit south Lebanon in February, July 3, 2008. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon greets a South ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:10:00 GMT

(AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon greets a South Korea soldier who will be dispatched to Lebanon as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. Photo:Jung Yeon-Je/AFP

Lebanese residents decorates streets with posters of Samir Qantar, ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:31:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanese residents decorates streets with posters of Samir Qantar, who is set to be released as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel, at Sidon in southern Lebanon July 3, 2008. Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had agreed to a U.N.-mediated deal to exchange prisoners with Israel and expected the swap to take place around the middle of this month. The prisoners include Qantar, the most prominent Lebanese held by Israel. He was serving a life sentence for killing a man and his 4-year-old daughter during a 1979 raid on the northern Israeli coastal town of Nahariya. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)

A man fixes a picture depicting the four Iranian Diplomats who ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A man fixes a picture depicting the four Iranian Diplomats who were kidnapped in lebanon in 1982 during a news conference in Beiurt to mark the 26th anniversary of their abduction July 3, 2008. Iran believes the four, who were kidnapped by Christian militiamen during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, to be alive and held in Israeli prisons, Tehran's embassy in Beirut said in a statement on Wednesday. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

A picture depicting the four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:22:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A picture depicting the four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 is seen during a news conference in Beirut to mark the 26th anniversary of their abduction, July 3, 2008. Iran believes the four, who were kidnapped by Christian militiamen during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, to be alive and held in Israeli prisons, Tehran's embassy in Beirut said in a statement on Wednesday. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

A Lebanese Druze Sheikh (R) and a Sunni Muslim Sheikh sit in ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:18:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Lebanese Druze Sheikh (R) and a Sunni Muslim Sheikh sit in front of a picture of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a news conference in Beirut, to mark the 26th anniversary of the kidnapping the four Iranian diplomats in 1982, July 3, 2008. Iran believes the four, who were kidnapped by Christian militiamen during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, to be alive and held in Israeli prisons, Tehran's embassy in Beirut said in a statement on Wednesday. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks at a press ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:41:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks at a press conference by video link to reporters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mahmoud Tawil

An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:36:00 GMT

(AFP) - An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar TV shows Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite Muslim Lebanese group Hezbollah, speaking druing a televised press conference in Beirut. Nasrallah on Wednesday said a prisoner swap between his Lebanese Shiite movement and Israel would take place within two weeks and that news of missing airman Ron Arad was part of the deal. Photo:/AFP

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite Muslim ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:36:00 GMT

(AFP) - Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite Muslim Lebanese group Hezbollah, is seen on a big screen in Beirut druing a press conference via video link at a secret venue. Nasrallah on Wednesday said a prisoner swap between his Lebanese Shiite movement and Israel would take place within two weeks and that news of missing airman Ron Arad was part of the deal. Photo:Joseph Barrak/AFP

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a giant screen during a news conference in Beirut suburbs July 2, 2008. Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had agreed to a U.N.-mediated deal to exchange prisoners with Israel and expected the swap to take place around the middle of this month. REUTERS/ Issam Kobeisy (LEBANON)

Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with actress ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:02:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with actress Patricia Arquette after his Autumn/Winter 2008-2009 Haute Couture fashion show in Paris July 2, 2008. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (FRANCE)

Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with singer ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:50:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with singer Elissa after his Autumn/Winter 2008-2009 Haute Couture fashion show in Paris July 2, 2008. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (FRANCE)

Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with French ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:42:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Lebanese designer Elie Saab poses for a photocall with French actress Lou Doillon after his Autumn/Winter 2008-2009 Haute Couture fashion show in Paris July 2, 2008. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (FRANCE)