One-tenth of the Israeli tanks that took part in the Lebanon war were destroyed or disabled, a military study found.
According to Armored Corps data published Thursday, Hezbollah anti-armor missiles penetrated 20 Israeli tanks during the monthlong war, killing 17 crewmen. Another 13 crewmen were killed when land mines destroyed or disabled their tanks. The number of tank crewmen wounded was in the double digits.
The high toll of the war on Israel’s Armored Cor... (more)
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon - The winding roads of southern Lebanon led residents on a journey of discovery through scorched mountains and rubble as they returned to their devastated homes Monday after a month of warfare.
Many were eager with anticipation. Some voiced defiance of the Israelis. Many were disappointed at what they found. A few were thankful that comrades had survived the fighting.
At Kasmiyeh, vehicle after vehicle crossed the Litani River over a bridge made... (more)
NEW DELHI: The Special Cell of the Delhi police on Monday claimed that it had concrete evidence of active collusion between the Pakistan Army, its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) network and the banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in carrying out militant attacks in India. This was allegedly revealed by Abu Anas, the Pakistani LeT militant arrested with a conduit, Mohammad Issa, at New Delhi railway station on August 10.
During interrogation, Anas revealed that he had... (more)
A CEASEFIRE to end a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah lasted less than four hours yesterday before shooting broke out in the town of Hadata, in southern Lebanon.
A spokesman for the Israeli Army said soldiers had shot and killed a Hezbollah militant. The spokesman said the soldiers opened fire at a group of militants who approached a patrol about 11am.
"The Israeli Defence Forces identified a cell of armed gunmen a few metres away who were approaching ... (more)
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez assures that the United States is governed by a genocidal mafia, that violates human rights and does not respect freedom of expression.
Chavez, reiterated that he looks forward to see the United States going through a "process of transition towards democracy," which removes from power the "imperialistic Mafia, genocidal and fascist " who, in his opinion, governs that country.
Chavez responded like that to Chief US diplomacy for Lat... (more)
SOUTH LEBANON - In the poultry yard at one of the moshavim along the northern road a reserve company from an engineering battalion gathered Thursday evening beneath camouflage nets. In another two hours the soldiers will enter Lebanon on security detail for a D-9 bulldozer and two Merkava tanks.
For four nights these soldiers have been opening up a secret route for Givati soldiers to race through to the town of Bint Jbail - subject, naturally, to the political zigzagging of Olmert... (more)
ISRAELI troops were last night trying to eliminate as many Hezbollah guerillas as possible before a UN-brokered ceasefire took effect at 8am (3pm AEST) today in southern Lebanon.
As Hezbollah rockets crashed into the northern city of Haifa and the Israeli cabinet approved UN Security Council resolution 1701, warplanes pounded southern Beirut with at least 20 missiles in two minutes, and up to 30,000 troops pushed about 20km into southern Lebanon.
Government expected Sunday to okay Security Council Resolution 1701 to end fighting in southern Lebanon. Senior source at PM's Office estimates in conversation with Ynet that soldiers' withdrawal will only begin when multinational force, Lebanese soldiers arrive
YNetNews - The government is expected on Sunday morning to approve Security Council Resolution 1701 to stop the fighting in southern Lebanon, but the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces soldiers from Lebanon will o... (more)
"[Hizbullah was] a direct result of Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon. The Israelis killed tens of thousands of people in Southern Lebanon during that occupation . . . this [was] part of the civil war. This is 1980. They devastated the south. H... (more)
(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter.
In the wide-ranging interview, the Iranian leader comments on President Bush's foreign policy, the lack of relations between Iran and the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq.
Speaking about President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter that criticized U.S. foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said, "Well, (with t... (more)
