Italy Expected To Approve Mission To Lebanon Tuesday
Joseph S. Mayton - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Beirut, Lebanon (AHN) - Italy is expected to vote on their country's peacekeeping mission to Lebanon on Tuesday. The mission is expected to be approved by parliament's lower house. Italy has offered to send the largest number of soldiers to the war-torn nation. Parliament is expected to approve the decision to send 2,500 Italian troops to Lebanon as part of the United Nations revamped peacekeeping mission in the country. Over 1,000 Italian troops have already been deployed in Lebanon and have taken control of a one hundred square mile sector along the coast from the Israeli border to the Litani River. Under the U.N.-brokered ceasefire that went into place on August 14, 15,000 international troops are to monitor south Lebanon in order to maintain the tenuous truce between Israel and Hezbollah. The two sides fought a 34-day war in July and August, which left over one thousand dead and hundreds of thousands as refugees.
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