Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in October 1998.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A Lebanese soldier clears up a minefield on the former Souk al-Gharb battlefront in Mount Lebanon, October 13. Eight years after the end of the civil war, the army is still engaged in the task of clearing suspected minefields in various former warzones. Efforts to clear minefields are still short of giving quick results as the Lebanese army, which solely handles clearing mines, lacks precise maps and still depends on traditional methods.
Lebanese President Elias Hrawi (R) shakes hands with new elected president Emile Lahoud (L) in the presidential palace, October 15. Lebanon's parliament on Thursday elected army commander General Emile Lahoud as president in the country's first post-civil war elections.
Lebanese soldiers patrol a former Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) base near the village of Halwa in the western Bekaa valley, October 16. The Lebanese army organized a media tour on Friday to this Kurdish camp after Lebanon recently dismissed Turkish charges that PKK guerrillas find safehavens in Syria or Lebanon' s Bekaa Valley.
A Lebanese soldier sits on an armored personnel carrier in a former Kurdish Workers (PKK) camp near the village of Hawla in the western Bekaa Valley, October 16. The Lebanese army organized a media tour on Friday to this Kurdish camp after Lebanon dismissed recent Turkish charges that PKK guerrillas had found safe havens in Syria or Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
Lebanese military policemen and civil defense members inspect the damaged car of suspected Palestinian Islamic Jihad group member Abu Hamza al-Majzoub in the port city of Sidon in south Lebanon October 27. They said al-Mazjoub, his wife and child were hurt when the bomb exploded as he started his car on Sidon's eastern highway. A passerby was also wounded in the blast.
