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In Sidon, 14 people were injured and a mosque was destroyed in the first strikes on the southern port city.
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July, 2006
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23 July
Iraqi army ‘saves British troops’
A routine patrol discovered five Katyusha rockets aimed and ready to fire at a base housing around 200 soldiers of the Light Infantry.
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23 July
Hezbollah rocket attack kills 2 in Haifa
The barrage of rockets landing in and around Haifa Sunday morning wounded 11 people, witnesses and local officials said.
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23 July
Car bombings kill 50 in Iraq
The first suicide car bomb exploded at 9 a.m., ripping open a packed open-air market in the Sadr City section of eastern Baghdad, Baghdad police said; 32 were killed and 65 were wounded.
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23 July
Suicide blasts kill 8 in Kandahar
A purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blasts and warned of more as NATO prepares to take control of the volatile southern Afghan region.
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23 July
US rushes bombs to Israel
TANKS, BULLDOZERS AND armoured personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barrelled over the border Saturday as Israeli forces stepped up a small-scale ground offensive into southern Lebanon to try to attack the Hizbollah group.
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23 July
Support for Tel Aviv complicates diplomacy
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s uncompromising support for Israel in its battle with Hizbollah, a stance now backed by Congress, is threatening to isolate the United States even further from the international community.
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23 July
Iraq holds reconciliation talks, but some pessimistic
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqi leaders met in a show of sectarian and ethnic solidarity on Saturday before a White House visit by the prime minister
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23 July
Gloom as civil war looms
BAGHDAD — Iraqi leaders have all but given up on holding the country together and, just two months after forming a national unity government, talk in private of “black days” of civil war ahead.
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23 July
Rice has narrow room for Mideast manoeuvre
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has only narrow room for diplomatic manoeuvre on her Middle East crisis tour if she wants to avoid destabilising the moderate Arab states
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