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  • Billions needed to fix war damage

    Residents returning to Beirut's southern suburbs yesterday. Thousands who have been displaced headed home as the ceasefire truce held. MIDDLE EAST: With the tenuous ceasefire still holding, Lebanese government ministers met yesterday to begin the laborious process of estimating civilian damage caused by a month of Israeli bombing. p

  • Furore as Japanese PM visits war shrine

    JAPAN: Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, defied warnings and protests from across Asia and from within his own government to visit the Yasukuni shrine war memorial yesterday, the anniversary of Tokyo's second World War surrender. p
Middle East Crisis

  • Bush attempts to paper over the cracks of a failed policy

    Hoping Israel would quickly destroy Hizbullah, the Bush administration soon realised its sweeping goals did not easily apply to this region of the Middle East, writes Peter Wallsten in Washington p

  • Lebanese literally picking up the pieces as they return to their homes

    The main thoroughfare into Beirut's southern suburbs is Hadi Nasrallah Avenue, named after the eldest son of Hizbullah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah. The youth was slain in the 1990s fighting Israel in the south; his brother survived at the front in the four-week war which Israel believed would be a three-day operation. p

  • Safety of any Irish deployment the 'main issue'

    The safety of Irish troops in Lebanon would be the "main issue" for the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Defence as they considered possible Irish involvement in the new United Nations peacekeeping force, a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. p

  • Israel's army chief under fire over shares deal at war's start

    Israel's chief of staff, Dan Halutz, faced calls for his resignation yesterday after it emerged he had sold a $27,000 (€21,200) investment portfolio just three hours after two Israeli soldiers were abducted on Israel's northern border on July 12th by Hizbullah - the event that triggered the month-long conflict that ended with Monday's truce. p

  • Syrian leader rules out early peace deal and blames US

    Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, said yesterday that peace in the Middle East would remain elusive for the foreseeable future and the United States was to blame. p
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