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The Lebanese Armed Forces have confirmed their acceptance of the latest point to be identified on the Line of Withdrawal between Lebanon and Israel, also called the Blue Line. On a sunny spring morning on the 5 March 2014 the…
19 March 2015 The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today held a ceremony to mark the 37th anniversary of its peacekeeping presence in southern Lebanon at the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura. Peacekeepers…
The Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Luciano Portolano, today chaired a regular tripartite meeting with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces…
"I was very concerned that I might leave Lebanon before having the opportunity of seeing my grandparents and reading al-Fatiha of the Holy Korkan by the tombs of my relatives," said Corporal Yasser, a French peacekeeper…
Seventeen Tyre municipal policemen recently completed six days of training at UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura. The training was conducted by UNIFIL Military Police - the Italian Carabinieri and facilitated by Civil Affairs…
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today underwent a transfer of command of its Maritime Task Force (MTF) to Rear Admiral Flavio Macedo Brasil from Rear Admiral Walter Eduardo Bombarda at the end of his one…
UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano met today with local authorities, mayors, LAF and Internal Security Officers in the town of Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon. Major-General Portolano…
Hebbariyeh stands on the western slope of Mount Hermon, in Hasbaya district, as high as 750 metres above the sea level. During the last winter period, the village experienced its share of the "white blizzard"; but as poetic…
The Lebanese Minister of Environment Mr. Mohammad Machnouk, today paid a visit to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura where he was received by UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today held separate meetings with Sheikh Hasan Abdallah (Tyre and Jabal Amel Shiite Mufti), Bishop Shukrallah Nabil Hajj (Tyre Maronite Archbishop)…
"The training that we are doing today is one of a series of courses that we deliver to LAF and UNIFIL soldiers to build up trust between both institutions" says Major Tadgh Murray, the Irish training officer conducting a…
The Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Luciano Portolano, today chaired a regular tripartite meeting with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces…