Middle Orient News

DUBAI — Thousands of Israeli bombs have fallen on Lebanon’s homes, roads, bridges, ports, broadcasting towers and even a lighthouse.

HIZBOLLAH FOUGHT FIERCE battles with Israeli troops on the Lebanese border Thursday, as thousands more foreigners fled the nine-day-old war in Lebanon, including 1,000 Americans evacuated by US Marines.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — After nine days of bombing Lebanon, Israel has begun to doubt the effectiveness of an offensive that has failed to stop Hizbollah fire, eliminate its leaders or push fighters back from the border.

GAZA CITY (AP) — Israeli forces killed three people and wounded six in the Gaza Strip, officials said Thursday,

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a US-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed on Thursday.

CAIRO — The Lebanese group Hizbollah is riding a wave of popularity in the Arab world because of its confrontation with Israel, despite some misgivings about the group’s cross-border raid on July 12.

BEIRUT — Shoes, photo albums, teddy bears and a cash register poke through the debris.

BROUMANA — Twenty-seven years ago Lana Sayegh, then just 15 days old, first visited this village in the hills above Beirut in the arms of anxious parents seeking refuge from Lebanon’s raging civil war.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said international law stressed the need to protect civilians.

US Marines have returned to Lebanon for the first time in nearly 23 years. A token force landed north of Beirut to evacuate Americans stranded by the Israeli bombardment.