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--- start live stats logic ------ end live stats logic ---HomeNewsSportRadioTVWeatherLanguages UK versionInternational version|About the versionsLow graphics|Accessibility helpBBC News in video and audioNews servicesYour news when you want itNews Front PageAfricaAmericasAsia-PacificEuropeMiddle EastSouth AsiaUKBusinessHealthScience/NatureTechnologyEntertainment-----------------Have Your SayIn PicturesCountry ProfilesSpecial ReportsProgrammesRELATED BBC SITESSPORTWEATHERON THIS DAYEDITORS BLOGLANGUAGESArabicPersianPashtoTurkishFrenchMoreLast Updated: Thursday, 31 August 2006, 14:00 GMT 15:00 UKE-mail this to a friendPrintable versionCountry profile: LebanonOne of the most complex and divided countries in the region, Lebanon has been on the fringes, and at times at the heart, of the Middle East conflict surrounding the creation of Israel.It became the scene of renewed and deadly fighting in July 2006, when Israel launcheda major military campaign against the Lebanon-based Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah, sparked by the movements capture of two Israeli soldiers.OVERVIEWOVERVIEW | FACTS | LEADERS | MEDIA A small, mountainous country, Lebanon was under French mandate until independence in 1943. Its population is a mixture of Christian sects, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Druze and others, having been a refuge for the regions persecuted minorities. AT-A-GLANCE A country full of promise after civil war between 1975 and 1990, Lebanon was again hit by war in 2006; it now faces the challenge of rebuilding and ensuring a ceasefire holdsPolitics: A power-sharing deal ensures political representation for all major religious blocs; Hezbollah is a major military and political force - strong enough to resist being crushed in the 2006 war with IsraelInternational: An expanded multinational UN peacekeeping force is being deployed to police a ceasefire between Israel and HezbollahGovernment structures are divided between the various groups. Lebanon has also seen several large influxes of Palestinian refugees, most of whom have limited legal status.From 1975 until the early 1990s Lebanon suffered a bloody civil war in which regional powers - particularly Israel, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organisation - used the country as a battlefield for their own conflicts. Syrian troops moved in shortly after the war started. Israeli troops invaded in 1978 and again in 1982 before pulling back to a self-declared security zone in the south from which they withdrew in May 2000. Syria exerts considerable political clout in Lebanon, although it withdrew its troops in 2005, ending a 29-year military presence.This followed the assassination in Beirut of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Lebanese opposition groups accused Syria of involvement; Damascus denied the charge. Huge pro- and anti-Syria rallies were held in Beirut, triggering the governments downfall and the Syrian pullout.The UN has demanded the dismantling of all armed groups in Lebanon, includingPalestinian mili

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