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Sunni supporters of majority leader Saad Hariri burn furniture from Hezbollah offices during clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008
Beirut   Hezbollah   Israel   Photos   Prisoners   		 The Daily Tribune 
Prisoner swap gives Hezbollah domestic kudos — analysts
| FEATURE | 07/20/2008 | BEIRUT — As Hezbollah boasted of victory in this week’s prisoner swap with Israel, analysts said the exchange gave the Shiite group increased political leverage at home. | On ... (photo: AP )
Syrian President Bashar Assad delivering a speech in Damascus on Saturday Jan.19 2008 at the official opening of the year-long Festivity for declaring Damascus the Capital of the Arab Culture for 2008, at the Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts.
Embassy   Photos   Relations   Syria   lebanon   		 Middle East Online 
Syrian-Lebanese embassy exchange welcomed
DAMASCUS - French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the development after he met Lebanese president Michel Suleiman and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Paris last week. | Analysts say that while it... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Lebanon´s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hassan Fadlallah speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Shiite stronghold suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Fadlallah, who recently dubbed President Bush  Daily Star Lebanon 
Fadlallah calls on new ministers to assume responsibilities
| Daily Star staff | Saturday, July 19, 2008 | BEIRUT: Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that the new Cabinet should be committed to national unity where all "perso... (photo: (AP Photo/Hussein Malla))
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A Lebanese soldier sits atop an armored personnel carrier as army deploys in an attempt to prevent a renewal of street battles in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, July 10, 2008.  Daily Star Lebanon 
Army says deadly clashes in Tripoli broke out at checkpoint
| Daily Star staff | Saturday, July 19, 2008 | TRIPOLI: Deadly clashes that erupted in Tripoli early Friday were triggered when a vehicle refused to stop at an army checkpoint, the Lebanese Army Comma... (photo: AP / )
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American supporters of Israel counter a protest by Pro-Palestinians at the Federal Building Friday, July 7, 2006, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. Protestors were demanding the release of an Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit. The Australian
Hamas to raise price for Shalit
| HAMAS has pledged to heed lessons from Israel's prisoner swap with Hezbollah by demanding a higher price for captured soldier Gilad Shalit, held in the Gaza Strip. | Th... (photo: AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes)

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, surrounded by bodyguards delivers a speech to his supporters during a Hezbollah "Victory over Israel" rally, in Beirut´s bombed-out suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. Nasrallah said The Guardian
The secret of Hizbullah's success
| Hizbullah's unbudging resistance to Israel – and the results that has achieved – explains its clout in the Arab world | Lebanon celebrated with lavish festivities t... (photo: AP/Petros Karadjias)
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A Palestinian woman sits amidst the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza. Israel has violated international law by systematically destroying Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah in a bid to create a buffer zone along the border with Egypt, a International Herald Tribune
Talks signal Mideast shift
| : After years of escalating tensions and bloodshed, the talk in the Middle East is suddenly about talking. The shift is still relatively subtle, but hints of a new appr... (photo: WN file/ Ahmed Deeb)

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Bassam Kantar, center, holds his brother, released prisoner Samir Kantar, left, and his mother Siham, right, wipes his face as they walk through crowds during a reception at his home mountain town of Abey, 10 miles south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 17, 2008. NZ Herald
Freed militants pledge to continue fight against Israel
| Released prisoners from left, Hussein Suleiman, Khader Zeidan, Samir Kantar, Maher Kourani and Mohammed Surour. Photo / AP | BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five militants who were f... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar)

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Released prisoners from left, Hussein Suleiman, Khader Zeidan, Samir Kantar, Maher Kourani and Mohammed Surour arrive to pay respects at the grave of slain top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Five Lebanese prisoners who were set free as part of a prisoners swap between Lebanon and Israel prayed Thursday at the grave of Mughniyeh, pledging to follow his footst Sydney Morning Herald
Freed Lebanese prisoners vow to fight on
| Five militants who were freed as part of a prisoner swap with Israel prayed today at a slain Hezbollah military commander's grave, pledging to follow in his footsteps a... (photo: AP / Darko Bandi)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad delivering a speech in Damascus on Saturday Jan.19 2008 at the official opening of the year-long Festivity for declaring Damascus the Capital of the Arab Culture for 2008, at the Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts. Syrian-Lebanese embassy exchange welcomed Middle East Online
President George W. Bush greets Thai troops after his remarks at the Royal Thai Army Headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2003. ula1 More troops sent in Thai-Cambodia temple dispute Irish Times
Members of the National League for Democracy, the party of pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi,, jsa1 Myanmar security tight on anniversary The State
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Israelis gather around the flower-covered grave of Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, jsa1 Thousands at burials of returned Israeli soldiers Philadelphia Daily News
An Israeli man looks at TV screens featuring captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, at as electric appliances shop in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of Regev and Goldwasser and Israel set free the perpetrator of one of the grisliest attacks in its history, part of a dramatic prisoner swap that promised to boost the radical Islamic militia and close a painful chapter from Israel's 2006 war in Leba Prisoner deal that had to be made The Australian
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters as he arrives at the Philadelphia City Committee dinner in Philadelphia, Monday, April 14, 2008 Full text: Obama's foreign policy speech The Guardian
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Pope Benedictus XVI during the general audience in S. Peter, Vatican City on the 26th March, 2008. Pope praises Australia for apology to Aborigines Globe and Mail
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivers an address at the palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 7, 2007. Yudhoyono said several ministers will be replaced in a Cabinet reshuffle, an effort to counter criticism that the government has b Jakarta 'regrets' E Timor atrocities The Australian
Armed with sticks, men from the pro-Indonesian milita group "Aitarak" (Thorn) run through the streets during a parade in Dili, East Timor, in this Monday, April 12, 1999 file photo. Leaders to admit E Timor abuses BBC News
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