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Car bomb is the second attack on the Lebanese army in less than two months.

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Four people were killed on Monday in a car bomb blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the restive northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, security and military officials said. The attack risks further undermining stability in the troubled country and efforts to reconcile rival political factions.

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A car bomb exploded Monday near a military bus carrying troops on their way to work in northern Lebanon, killing at least five people and injuring 25. (Sept. 29)

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On the last Friday of Ramadan, tens of thousands of West Bank Palestinians wishing to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem showed up at the Israeli controlled Qalandia check point , between the West bank and Jerusalem. But only a small number were allowed to pass , as Israeli security forces restricted the age of entry to over 50.

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Israeli President Shimon Peres has asked Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday to form a new government, after scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially stepped down.

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Israeli media on Tuesday raised fears of a growing trend of attacks by Palestinians from east Jerusalem after a man rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring 13 people before being shot dead.

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A group of Palestinian refugees who had been camped on the Iraqi Syrian border have been given a new home in Iceland.

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Thirteen soldiers were hurt late Monday when a Palestinian plowed his car into the group at an intersection near Jerusalem's Old City, police and rescue services said, making it the third such incident in recent weeks. (Sept. 22)

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is officially resigning. He promised to step down immediately after his governing Kadima Party elected a leader to replace him. (Sept. 21)

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has formally told his government colleagues that he was resigning.

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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni declared victory Thursday in a surprisingly tight race to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as head of Israel's governing party, and says she will now turn to the task of putting together a new government. (Sept. 18)

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Voting started on Wednesday in Israel where the governing Kadima party is picking a new leader to replace scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

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Israel's ruling Kadima party is to hold elections to pick a new leader to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

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Talks are taking place in Lebanon by political factions as part of a peace deal that ended fighting in May.

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The Lebanese port city of Sidon is living an ecological nightmare. The city's dump releases toxic gases, chemicals seep into the ground water and waste tumbles into the sea, washing up in the port and along the coast.

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The bodies of two soldiers have been returned to Israel in a bitter exchange with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Israeli and Palestinian leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to a Middle East peace deal.

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Kevin Sites first reported from Lebanon at a time when Syrian troops had pulled out, but political assassinations were continuing to fuel rage and apprehension. In Gaza, Sites documented a chaotic funeral procession through the streets.

Syria faces intense political trouble with Lebanon, a confrontation with the U.S. over Iraq and a crisis about its role in the Arab world. But Syria's greatest challenge may be with itself.

Syrian troops are gone, but the spate of murders of anti-Syrian lawmakers and journalists has continued. Meanwhile the country's political web remains tangled, as Kevin Sites reports from Beirut.

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In Haifa??s Rambam Hospital, the wards are full of young men like Brian Seidner - Israeli soldiers who got out of Lebanon with their lives, but just barely. Seidner describes his experience fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Ya'ar Ben-Giat, 19, a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces, was killed Saturday in ground fighting in south Lebanon. Friends and family mourn as he is buried near Haifa on Sunday, just a day before a cease fire is to begin.

Israel has voted to expand its ground offensive in Lebanon, but is holding off for now to give diplomatic efforts more time to gain traction. Meanwhile, additional columns of armor are already massed in northern Israel near the Lebanese border.

The Israel-Lebanon border near Metula, Israel, is an area of surprisingly quiet desolation. Kevin Sites was able to pass through a section of broken fence and inspect the rubble on the Lebanese side, where Hezbollah flags still fly.

Kevin Sites reports from the Israel-Lebanon border near Metula, Israel, where a fence is all that separates Israel and Hezbollah. It's an area of surprisingly quiet desolation, save the occasional sound of rocket or artillery fire piercing the warm breeze.

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Four bridges in Lebanon were destroyed by Israeli air strikes on Friday, breaking up the last major roadway from Beirut to Syria. Kevin Sites reports from what was left of the Halat bridge as rescue workers try to recover a car trapped in the rubble.

Nearly three weeks of Israeli bombing, and a ground fight between Israeli and Hezbollah forces, has reduced the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail to rubble. Meanwhile, a lull in the bombing has given stranded residents a chance to flee.

With a lull in the Israeli bombing campaign, journalists were able to visit Bint Jbail, the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon that has been a major focal point of the fight between Israel and Hezbollah. Kevin Sites reports.

In the deadliest attack on Lebanon since the fight between Israel and Hezbollah began, Israeli air strikes killed dozens of civilians in Qana, mostly women and children. Kevin Sites surveys the scene, where there were conflicting accounts about the death toll.

Kevin Sites gained access to the home of a Hezbollah fighter in a southern Lebanon village. He shows off a small weapons stash inside, including an M-16, an AK-47 and a grenade launcher. He says many homes have small stashes like this, but that larger weaponry is kept elsewhere.

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The Union of Municipalities in Tyre has been working with local humanitarian groups to distribute limited amounts of aid supplies for the people of southern Lebanon. Officials hope that will soon be bolstered by U.N. aid efforts.

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United Nations spokesman in Lebanon Khaled Manosour discusses the difficulty in getting aid to southern Lebanon, and outlines the plan for distribution, now that a limited supply has finally arrived.

The first U.N. shipment of humanitarian aid - 90 tons of food and medical supplies - reached Tyre, southern Lebanon, Wednesday afternoon. But with the conflict still raging, distributing the aid around the greater area will be a major challenge.

Six medics were wounded in an Israeli strike on two Red Cross ambulances Sunday night in southern Lebanon. One of the injured being transported lost a leg in the attack.

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Ali Najem is the son of the head surgeon at Najem hospital in Tyre, southern Lebanon. He shows Kevin Sites some of the shrapnel that has been removed from victims - an array of wires, metal and circuitry.

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A group of Americans who spend every summer vacationing in southern Lebanon has just made it to Tyre, but their dangerous journey is far from over. Kevin Sites interviews Zeinab Chahine and Zeinab Shaheen.

Israeli air strikes continue in and near Tyre, southern Lebanon. Sunday, three people were killed and 13 injured in a strike on a civilian bus. Note: the nurse interviewed in this clip says 18 people were aboard; that number was later confirmed at 16.

From shopping in the market to fishing in the Mediterranean, life in Gaza goes on despite the cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sami Al Salem, a Palestinian journalist living and working in Gaza, faces a daily challenge: how to separate his personal life from the story he covers.