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Israel: Hezbollah drone attacks warship
Jul 14 2006 10:15PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah rammed an Israeli warship with an unmanned aircraft rigged with explosives and set it ablaze Friday, Israeli military officials said, after attack jets smashed Lebanon's links to the world one by one and destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic guerrilla group's leader.
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Israel says warship attacked by drone
Jul 14 2006 8:15PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - An unmanned Hezbollah aircraft rigged with explosives rammed into an Israeli warship late Friday, leaving four sailors missing and causing heavy damage and a fire, Israeli military officials said.
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Israel: Hezbollah rocket hits merchant ship
Jul 14 2006 7:52PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A Hezbollah rocket barrage aimed at Israeli warships missed their target and struck a civilian merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli military officials said early Saturday.
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Lebanon seeks world help to end conflict
Jul 14 2006 7:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Lebanon accused Israel on Friday of launching "a widespread barbaric aggression" aimed at bringing the small Mideast nation to its knees and urged the international community to end the military offensive.
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Israel PM's bid to free 3 soldiers a gamble
Jul 14 2006 6:59PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Ehud Olmert's effort to free three captured soldiers has become a broad campaign to alter the strategic balance of the Middle East _ an enormous gamble for an Israeli prime minister facing growing domestic pressure to hit Islamic militants hard.
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U.S. citizens should weigh leaving Lebanon
Jul 14 2006 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Friday that Americans in Lebanon should consider leaving when it is safe to do so, and officials made contingency plans for the evacuation of people who cannot leave on their own.
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Militants open border between Egypt, Gaza
Jul 14 2006 5:30PM (CT)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants forced open a border gate Friday between Egypt and Gaza, letting hundreds of people pour across despite warning shots from Israeli helicopter gunships.
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Israel says Hezbollah drone damages warship
Jul 14 2006 4:35PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - An unmanned Hezbollah aircraft rigged with explosives slammed into an Israeli warship late Friday, causing heavy damage to the vessel, military officials said.
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Israeli strikes demolish Beirut suburb
Jul 14 2006 4:12PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - After Israeli missiles hit his neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut, 21-year-old waiter Tareq Jarah quit his job and hopped on his scooter.
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Iraqi army struggles to lure Sunni Arabs
Jul 14 2006 3:45PM (CT)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - Their televised graduation was supposed to be a moment of national celebration: A class of 1,000 Sunni Arab soldiers emerging from basic training would show Iraqis that the country's worsening religious divide was not afflicting the national army.
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Hezbollah: We're ready for 'open war'
Jul 14 2006 3:35PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah's leader said Friday that his group is ready for "open war" with Israel, and as his words were broadcast, guerrillas attacked an Israeli warship that had been firing missiles into southern Beirut.
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Threat of rockets puts Haifa on edge
Jul 14 2006 3:14PM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - Shops were open, streets bustled with traffic and restaurants were packed with customers Friday in this seaside town just 25 miles south of the Lebanese border.
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Syria, Iran seen as behind kidnappings
Jul 14 2006 2:28PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The fighting between Israeli forces and Islamic militants in Lebanon hasn't touched Iran or Syria yet, but many analysts think those countries were the hidden hand behind Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers.
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Bombs, mortars strike mosques in Baghdad
Jul 14 2006 1:27PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Bombs and mortars struck Shiite and Sunni mosques in the Baghdad area Friday, the latest in a week of tit-for-tat sectarian attacks that have killed more than 250 people.
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Report: Israel destroys Hezbollah HQ
Jul 14 2006 12:09PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli warplanes Friday destroyed the building housing the headquarters of Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Beirut, the group's TV station reported.
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Palestinians stream into Gaza from Egypt
Jul 14 2006 11:34AM (CT)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Militants forced open a border gate between Egypt and Gaza on Friday, wounding an Egyptian officer and letting hundreds of Palestinians who had been trapped on the Egyptian side of the border to get into Gaza.
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France criticizes Israel attack on Lebanon
Jul 14 2006 11:13AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac castigated the Israeli offensive into Lebanon on Friday, calling it "totally disproportionate," while he and other European leaders expressed fears of a widening Middle East conflict that could get out of control.
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Israeli warplanes strike in Beirut again
Jul 14 2006 7:01AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli warplanes punished the Lebanese capital on Friday, blasting the airport for a second day, shattering bridges, igniting fuel storage tanks and cutting the main highway to Syria. Hezbollah guerrillas fought back with a fresh barrage of rockets.
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Mideast fighting ripples through region
Jul 14 2006 5:40AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to deepen the schism between U.S.-backed Arab regimes like Egypt and Jordan that want a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a hardline camp led by Syria that rejects peace at any price.
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U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel
Jul 14 2006 3:42AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States blocked an Arab-backed resolution Thursday that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years.
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