<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hezbollah: News &amp; Videos about Hezbollah - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hezbollah</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hezbollah from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:12:17 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Hezbollah: News &amp; Videos about Hezbollah - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hezbollah</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hezbollah from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Hezbollah denies link to weapons ship</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/05/israel.ship/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/05/israel.ship/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Militant group Hezbollah Thursday denied links to a huge haul of weapons Israel says was seized when a naval anti-smuggling patrol intercepted a ship it claims was supplying arms for fighters in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah choice at center of Lebanon vote</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/05/lebanon.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/05/lebanon.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lebanese voters were heading to the polls on Sunday with their main choices to lead the next government a Hezbollah-backed alliance or a U.S.-backed coalition.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Do war clouds loom over Lebanon vote?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/26/lebanon.analysis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/26/lebanon.analysis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Shortly after 8 a.m. on July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters snatched two Israeli soldiers after carrying out an ambush on their patrol.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polls open in Lebanon</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/07/lebanon.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/07/lebanon.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lebanese voters began casting ballots Sunday in an election pitting a coalition supported by the United States against an alliance backed by the militant group, Hezbollah.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah accuses German magazine of conspiring with Israel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.hezbollah.nasrallah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.hezbollah.nasrallah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hezbollah's leader accused a German magazine of engaging in a conspiracy with Israel and the West after it reported that the militia group orchestrated the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Hezbollah win could shake Obama Mideast policy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/17/obama.lebanon.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/17/obama.lebanon.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Since the moment Barack Obama took office, he has made a concerted effort to speak directly to the Muslim world.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah: Bush tried to change Gaza 'realities'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/29/lebanon.bush/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/29/lebanon.bush/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the administration of former President George W. Bush worked with its Arab allies to try and change the "realities" in Gaza before Barack Obama took office.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel and Hizballah Ready to Rumble?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828431,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828431,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Israel complains that Hizballah has doubled its arsenal, while the Shi'ite militia demands action to stop Israeli overflights</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six die in Lebanon fighting</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six people have been killed and 52 wounded since Thursday night in battles between pro- and anti-government forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security forces told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 4 dead in Lebanon clashes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/25/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/25/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel 'Identifies Dead Soldiers'</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1823166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1823166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Israeli defense officials say forensics experts have positively identified the remains of two soldiers released by Hizballah guerrillas exchange with Israel got under way</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel signs prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/07/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/07/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israel has signed a U.N.-brokered deal with Hezbollah under which it plans to release prisoners in exchange for two captured Israeli soldiers, both presumed dead, the Israeli prime minister's office said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK ban for Hezbollah military arm</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/02/britain.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/02/britain.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Britain's Home Office said Wednesday it is banning the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political movement, because of its support for "terrorism" in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel OKs Hezbollah prisoner deal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israel agreed to release a notorious killer Sunday in order to bring closure to the families of three missing military men, a government spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli Cabinet to consider swap with Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/24/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/24/israel.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will ask his Cabinet on Sunday to approve a deal with Hezbollah that would involve exchanging prisoners for two captured Israeli soldiers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S.: Two Venezuelans are supporting terrorism</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/18/venezuela.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/18/venezuela.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. government designated two Venezuelans, including a diplomat, as supporters of international terrorism Wednesday for what it called their support of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Power-sharing pact yields Lebanese president</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.president/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.president/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Celebratory gunfire could be heard across the capital after Lebanon's parliament elected Gen. Michel Suleiman as the nation's 12th president Sunday -- just days after the Lebanese government agreed to share power with Hezbollah. </description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 18:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah lifts Beirut street blockades</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/15/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/15/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hezbollah militants Thursday began removing street blockades -- one day after the reversal of two Lebanese Cabinet decisions made during the recent factional violence.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hizballah Makes Promises in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1806607,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1806607,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hizbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem says the group will "return things" to normal after the government reversed key decisions that had triggered days of conflict</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hizballah's Toughest Foe in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1756914,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1756914,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>As the Shi'ite group tries to tighten its control, it is coming up against Lebanon's
prickly sectarianism. Case in point, the secretive Druze of the Chouf mountains</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Surrendering to Hizballah</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739261,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739261,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Facing facts, and with no good options, Lebanese politicians have begun conceding to the country's new rulers</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>After the Blitz, Hizballah Runs Beirut</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739098,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739098,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With limited resistance, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militants have stormed into control, leaving a mess for Israel, the U.S., and -- if history is any measure -- Hizballah, too</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah militants to leave Beirut streets</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/10/beirut.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/10/beirut.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hezbollah militants will leave Beirut's streets in response to the Lebanese army's assuming security in the city, an opposition spokesman said Saturday, but "civil disobedience" will continue.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah militants take over West Beirut</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/beirut.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/beirut.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hezbollah militias took control of western Beirut on Friday, dealing a major blow to the U.S.-backed government in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 01:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bracing for a New Hizballah-Israel War</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723959,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723959,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Though there's not a thread of evidence for it, some Lebanese have even set the date for a new Israeli invasion -- April 6.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel and Hizballah on High Alert</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1716869,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1716869,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The assassination of a top commander has prompted fears that a second round in the 2006 war could be drawing nearer 
</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Death of Hezbollah leader could mean threat to Jewish targets</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/jewish.targets/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/jewish.targets/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The FBI is warning of possible threats to Jewish targets in the United States, following the car bombing death of a Hezbollah leader in Syria, a law enforcement official said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Reputed terrorist long sought by CIA killed in explosion</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/13/hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/13/hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Hezbollah commander suspected in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the last 25 years and a reputed role model for Osama bin Laden has been killed in Syria, Hezbollah TV said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hizballah Mourns Its Shadowy Hero</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713020,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713020,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Some foot soldiers resented the praise heaped on Mughniyah, but Lebanon's Shi'ite movement   lost a fearsome fighter</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Justice Served: Killing Mughniyah</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1712995,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1712995,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Robert Baer, a former CIA operative, assesses the life and bad times of a man he once hunted, one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Israel About to Attack Hizballah? 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680587,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680587,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With tensions building on the Lebanon border, some wonder if Israel is readying a strike against the radical Shi'ite militia
</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside the Hizballah Museum</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1653282,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1653282,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a new museum to commemorate last summer's "divine victory" over Israel, you can visit a replica of a front-line Hizballah bunker -- no blindfold required</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hizballah's Christian Soldiers?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1650192,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1650192,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Why Lebanon's Maronites are turning to a political party aligned with the Iran-backed opposition</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Peacekeeping with Hizballah's Help</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1642243,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1642243,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Menaced by al-Qaeda, peacekeeping forces become neighborly with Lebanon's powerful Shi'a group</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Officials: Hezbollah agent played deaf before confessing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/02/iraq.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/02/iraq.hezbollah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top special operations officer with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia pretended to be deaf and mute when he was captured in Iraq earlier this year, hampering efforts to obtain his identity for weeks, U.S. intelligence officials said. </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah detain Lebanese police</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/15/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/15/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>In an incident described as the first of its kind, Hezbollah gunmen surrounded a Lebanese police patrol Friday and held them for "entering a Hezbollah security zone."</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The poverty/terror myth</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/magazines/fortune/pluggedin_murphy_terror.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/magazines/fortune/pluggedin_murphy_terror.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The idea that poverty breeds terror appears obvious; how could it be otherwise? And people as different as the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Bush, Jacques Chirac and Pakistan's leader, Pervez Musharraf, have also noted a link between poverty and terrorism.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel military chief quits under fire over war performance</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/16/israel.resigns/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/16/israel.resigns/index.html</guid><description>The Israel Defense Forces' chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, has resigned, the Israeli Defense Ministry said early Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah protests threatened as Lebanese ministers quit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/11/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/11/lebanon.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Five Shiite ministers resigned from Lebanon's Cabinet on Saturday after talks about giving the Hezbollah party more power collapsed, according to party spokesmen.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah leader: Militants 'won't surrender arms'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/lebanon.rally/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/lebanon.rally/index.html</guid><description>In a speech to thousands of cheering supporters, the leader of Hezbollah vowed Friday the militants never will give up their arms, as called for in the U.N. resolution that ended its 34-day war with Israel last month.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Hezbollah guilty of war crimes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/14/amnesty.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/14/amnesty.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Amnesty International Thursday released a scathing report accusing Hezbollah of war crimes, during a month-long war with Israel.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Khatami: Fight against terror has sparked extremism</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/05/verjee.khatami/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/05/verjee.khatami/index.html</guid><description>The United States has accused Iran of fueling the conflict in Iraq, and arming Hezbollah with rockets and guns in its war with Israel.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Annan wants Hezbollah to free captured Israelis</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/28/mideast.annan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/28/mideast.annan/index.html</guid><description>U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called on Hezbollah to turn over two captured Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nasrallah: Soldiers' abductions a mistake</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/27/mideast.nasrallah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/27/mideast.nasrallah/index.html</guid><description>Had Hezbollah known how Israel was going to respond, the group would not have captured two Israeli soldiers last month in northern Israel, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Expert: Lebanon needs $1B in south</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/lebanon.indyk/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/lebanon.indyk/index.html</guid><description>Lebanon's government needs a cash infusion of at least $1 billion to rebuild its shattered south if it is to meet Hezbollah's challenge for authority there, according to a U.S.-based expert on the Middle East.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli troops shoot Hezbollah militants </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/21/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/21/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>Israeli troops shot two or three Hezbollah militants Monday in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah fighters fill raided town</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/20/israel.raid/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/20/israel.raid/index.html</guid><description>Jumpy Hezbollah fighters flooded Boudai on Sunday, brandishing Kalashnikovs and stopping, searching and questioning outsiders the day after the town fought off an Israeli commando raid with a 90-minute shootout.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel: Raid targets weapons transfer</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/19/mideast.main.05/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/19/mideast.main.05/index.html</guid><description>The Israeli military says it conducted a successful operation deep inside Lebanon Saturday aimed at preventing and disrupting the transfer of weapons from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Video provokes questions of Lebanese army</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/17/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/17/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>A video showing Lebanese soldiers cordially offering Israeli troops glasses of tea during the military offensive earlier this month has hit Israeli and Hezbollah airwaves.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Techs pace early advance</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/14/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/14/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>U.S. stocks rallied at Monday's open, with technology stocks leading the way, as investors cheered lower oil prices and the cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: Cease-fire begins Monday</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/12/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/12/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel will begin at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday in a taped statement.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security Council passes proposal to end Mideast conflict</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/11/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/11/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a six-page proposal aimed at ending the monthlong conflict between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: A rational deduction</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/10/tyrrell.islamofascists/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/10/tyrrell.islamofascists/index.html</guid><description>It seems to me that the Islamofascists of Hezbollah have made a parlous mistake. They have demonstrated that they have missiles that can cause dreadful localized carnage and that they are continuing to improve those missiles. Someday these weapons will be able to cause widespread carnage. Hezbollah's killers have demonstrated that they will infiltrate their brutes into civilian neighborhoods and use suicide bombers. They have refused to abide by U.N. resolutions. They have revealed that they have powerful supporters in Syria and Iran. Actually the Syrians and Iranians have not been coy about showing their support for Hezbollah's brutal asymmetrical warfare, and here they too have made a mistake. In their unconscionable bellicosity, Hezbollah's guerrillas, the Syrians and the Iranians have all donned bull's-eyes. They have made themselves targets.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice: 'Now we'll see who is for peace'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/06/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/06/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she expected the United Nations to vote "in the next day or two" on a draft resolution that could help end the war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hezbollah.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security Council considers U.S., French truce plan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/05/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/05/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council met for several hours Saturday with no word on the fate of a draft resolution to halt the 25-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands of Iraqis rally for Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Thousands of people marched through the streets of Baghdad on Friday, enthusiastically voicing support for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombs pound Beirut for second night</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/03/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/03/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>Israel launched a second straight night of airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, targeting an area known as a stronghold of Hezbollah militants.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel resumes airstrikes on Beirut</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/02/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/02/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>Powerful explosions shattered the early morning peace in Beirut on Thursday -- airstrikes which announced a resumption of attacks on Hezbollah strongholds in the city's southern suburbs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel strikes deep into Lebanon</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military also engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel lists conditions needed for peace</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/31/peres.lebanon/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/31/peres.lebanon/index.html</guid><description>With hopes dimming for a quick end to fighting in Lebanon, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres presented five conditions Monday that he said must be met before Israel can achieve peace with Hezbollah.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel: Hezbollah has new, powerful missile</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/28/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/28/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>Hezbollah guerillas Friday launched their most potentially destructive rockets yet, reaching as far into Israel as they have at any point so far in the conflict, according to Israeli police.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Bravo, Condi</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/27/tyrrell.mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/27/tyrrell.mideast/index.html</guid><description>The other day in Rome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held her ground. Bravo, Condi. Her counterparts in the "international community" wanted to prevail upon her to join with them in an agreement calling upon Israel to desist from trying to extirpate from southern Lebanon Hezbollah launch sites used for the missiles that have been raining down on northern Israel -- unprovoked.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Border battles flare amid rocket attacks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>The Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters exchanged heavy fire around three border towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday as rockets rained on northern Israel, much of which appears to be nearly deserted.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli troops suffer largest one-day loss</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/26/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/26/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>The Israeli military on Wednesday suffered its largest loss of life in its 15-day offensive against Hezbollah guerillas as nine Israeli soldiers were killed while fighting in southern Lebanese towns.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah's secret weapon</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/schuster.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/schuster.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Malikah Sroor can tell you what makes Hezbollah so powerful within Lebanon's Shiite community.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel takes aim at Hezbollah stronghold</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants battled Monday in southern Lebanon around what the Israeli military has dubbed Hezbollah's "terror capital."</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-CIA officer: Israel can damage but not destroy Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/hezbollah.cia/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/hezbollah.cia/index.html</guid><description>A former CIA officer, who spearheaded U.S. efforts to crack down on Hezbollah, told CNN Sunday that he believes Israeli operations may disrupt Hezbollah's militant infrastructure, but they won't destroy the group entirely.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saudis call for cease-fire ahead of Rice visit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</guid><description>Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Sunday that he urged President Bush to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Annan: Lebanon en route to 'humanitarian disaster'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/21/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/21/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</guid><description>If there is no cessation of violence in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and innocent Lebanese people continue to be killed or displaced, "I'm afraid of a major humanitarian disaster," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Boys will be boys</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/20/tyrrell.mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/20/tyrrell.mideast/index.html</guid><description>To the grizzled and disheveled stalwarts of Hezbollah and Hamas, may I say you did it to yourselves. Kapow! As another Israeli bomb lands nearby, as a shell whizzes overhead, may I remind you that you are hunkering down either on Gaza or on Lebanese soil that was evacuated by the Israelis so that you could live in peace. And what did you donkeys do? You tunneled under the Israeli borders to infiltrate Israel and kill innocent civilians. You established an infrastructure of missiles to rain down destruction on Israeli cities that were at peace, providing security and prosperity for both Jews and Arabs. You captured Israeli soldiers in an unprovoked attack. Kapow!  You are getting just what you deserve.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: Americans worried about Mideast involvement</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/20/schneider.poll/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/20/schneider.poll/index.html</guid><description>What do Americans want the United States to do in the Middle East? A new poll, conducted Wednesday by the Opinion Research Corp. for CNN, has some answers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. chief calls for immediate cease-fire</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</guid><description>U.N. chief Kofi Annan called on Thursday for an immediate end to the fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli troops meet heavy resistance</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast.int/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast.int/index.html</guid><description>Israeli special forces Thursday directly engaged with Hezbollah fighters inside southern Lebanon in what the Israeli military says is an effort to wipe out the remaining capabilities of the Islamic militia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel: Hezbollah's military power halved</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Two Israeli soldiers were killed battling Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday in a second day of fierce ground fighting in war-ravaged southern Lebanon, the military said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanese leaders call for unity</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/lebanese.politics/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/lebanese.politics/index.html</guid><description>Lebanese leaders Wednesday called for the multicultural country to remain united amid an eight-day Israeli bombardment, a call joined by the son of slain Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. official: Israel needs time to 'defang' Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/mideast.diplomacy/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will not go on a peace mission to the Mideast before next week, giving Israel time to "defang" Hezbollah, a senior administration official said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>IDF: Hezbollah leaders' bunker hit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/19/mideast/index.html</guid><description>New explosions shook Beirut early Thursday, hours after Israeli warplanes dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker where Hezbollah leaders were holed up, according to the Israel Defense Forces.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/18/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/18/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Israeli ground troops have entered southern Lebanon on a mission to destroy outposts of the militant group Hezbollah, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman told CNN early Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil retreat could help stocks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/17/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/17/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks could open lower Monday on continued Middle East tensions, but  an Israeli television report that the country could wrap up its attacks on Hezbollah militants within days had oil significantly lower and stock futures off of earlier lows..</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Syria should press Hezbollah</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/15/mideast.bush/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/15/mideast.bush/index.html</guid><description>President Bush called on Syria Saturday to exert its influence on Hezbollah militants so they will "lay down their arms."</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel strikes militant stronghold in Beirut</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/15/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/15/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Israel took its fight against Hezbollah back into the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, targeting a militant stronghold in Dahiya, the Israel Defense Forces said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four Israeli troops missing after warship hit </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Four Israeli troops were missing Saturday following an attack on one of its warships off the Lebanese coast just minutes after Hezbollah's leader said the militant group will take aim at the warships that "attacked our civilians."</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah: Violence mixed with social mission</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/13/hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/13/hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>The group called Hezbollah is on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations, but also participates in the Lebanese government. A few facts on the organization:</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli warplanes hit Beirut suburb</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/13/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/13/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Israeli warplanes early Friday bombed southern Beirut, home to the offices of Hezbollah and the group's leader, as the Israeli-Lebanese violence that has killed dozens of Lebanese civilians and 10 Israelis entered its third day.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah spoof sparks protests</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/01/lebanon.protests/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/01/lebanon.protests/index.html</guid><description>Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah urged demonstrators to return to their homes early Friday after a television program satirizing him spurred hundreds of followers to set bonfires in the streets of Beirut.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli family wounded in rocket attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/03/israel.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/03/israel.violence/index.html</guid><description>Palestinian militants fired two rockets on Israeli targets Friday, one of them striking the home of a family of four and injuring them, according to the Israeli military.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah fighters, Israeli troops clash</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/21/israel.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/21/israel.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Hezbollah gunners and the Israel Defense Forces traded fire Monday in northern Israel and the disputed Shebaa Farms area.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah and ally claim victory</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/06/lebanon.vote/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/06/lebanon.vote/index.html</guid><description>Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian ally Amal have claimed overwhelming victories in phase two of Lebanon's parliamentary elections.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah disarmament unclear</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/06/lebanon.report/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/06/lebanon.report/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. resolution that requires Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias to disband and disarm applies to Hezbollah only "to a certain extent," the Lebanese prime minister has said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 02:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah rejects weapons call</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/16/hezbollah.resist/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/16/hezbollah.resist/index.html</guid><description>The head of militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah has said it will not give up its armed resistance, despite calls for it to join the mainstream political process in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah flies unmanned plane over Israel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/07/hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/07/hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Hezbollah sent an unmanned reconnaissance plane over Israeli airspace Sunday, the Lebanon-based group and the Israeli military said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah member dies in bombing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/19/hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/19/hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>A member of Hezbollah died early Monday when his car exploded in a southern Beirut suburb, a representative in the group's office said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel, Hezbollah battle across Lebanese border</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/07/israel.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/07/israel.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Cross-border fighting broke out early Friday between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia in the disputed Shebaa Farms region along the border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 05:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel, Hezbollah swap prisoners</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/29/prisoner.exchange/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/29/prisoner.exchange/index.html</guid><description>Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah conducted a historic prisoner swap Thursday after years of tense, secret negotiations brokered by Germany.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah, Israeli prisoner swap set for Thursday</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/25/israel.prisoners/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/25/israel.prisoners/index.html</guid><description>Israel and Hezbollah were expected to begin a historic prisoner exchange in Germany this week, the chief of the Lebanese militia group said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel, Hezbollah to swap 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