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The 2008 Lebanon conflict (or the 7 May clashes; Arabic: أحداث 7 أيار) was a brief intrastate military conflict in May 2008 in Lebanon between opposition militias (mainly Shiite Hezbollah) and pro-government Sunnis. [1]
May 8 - 2008 conflict in Lebanon: Fighting erupts after an 18 month political crisis between pro-government and opposition militias across in Beirut after the government shuts down Hezbollah's telecommunication network. [1] Fighting soon spread to other areas of the country, including Tripoli and Aley. [2]
10 SSNP members, 9 pro-government fighters, 2 Hezbollah fighters, 2 soldiers, 2 civilians, 1 Australian citizen killed; A gunman fired on the funeral procession of the government supporter, who was killed the previous day in Beirut, leaving two people dead and several wounded. [6]
The 2006–2008 Lebanese protests were a series of political protests and sit-ins in Lebanon that began on 1 December 2006, [1] led by groups that opposed the US and Saudi-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and ended on 21 May 2008 with the signing of the Doha Agreement.
Syrian occupation of Lebanon; 2005 Lebanon bombings; Cedar Revolution; 2006 July War; 2006–08 political protests; 2007 North Lebanon conflict; 2008 conflict in Lebanon; Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon; Lebanese presidential crisis; Maritime boundary dispute; Liquidity crisis ; Political crisis; 2020 Beirut explosion; Israeli invasion of ...
Just two weeks ago, the United States and France were demanding an immediate 21-day ceasefire to ward off an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Analysis-Caught between competing goals in Lebanon, US ...
Imad Fayez Mughniyeh (Arabic: عماد فايز مغنية ; 7 December 1962 – 12 February 2008), [1] also known by his nom de guerre al-Hajj Radwan (الحاج رضوان), was a Lebanese militant leader who was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership. Information about ...
Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi saluting the coffin of Ehud Goldwasser Hezbollah released the remains of two captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. [1] In exchange, Israel returned Palestine Liberation Front militant Samir Kuntar, who was convicted of multiple murders in Israel, Nasim Nisr, a man of Jewish heritage who had immigrated to Israel from his native Lebanon and spied for ...