Article abstract: After eighteen years of occupying southern Lebanon, Israel finally withdrew its troops, assured by the United Nations and the government of Lebanon that their own forces would prevent future terrorist incursions across Israel’s northern border.
Lebanon and Israel
Lebanon is an Arab nation located in southwest Asia on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. One of the world’s smallest sovereign states, with an area of 4,015 square miles, it is surrounded on the north and east by Syria and on the south by Israel. In 1970, a civil...
Source: Great Events: 1900-2001, ©2002 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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