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Lieutenant General Ajae Kumar Sharma of the Indian Army visited UNIFIL Headquarters as well as the Mission’s area of operation this week. During the visit on 8 and 9 January, Lt. Gen. Sharma, who also oversees the deployment…
UNIFIL’s Sector East Headquarters carried out the “East Angel” exercise last week in order to evaluate the reaction of its components during emergency situations requiring casualty evacuation. The exercise, carried out on 20…
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (An Taoiseach) of The Republic of Ireland today visited UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura as well as the main base of UNIFIL’s Irish Contingent in south-west Lebanon. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force…
UNIFIL’s Nepalese Battalion (NEPBATT) commander Lieutenant Colonel Narayan Bahadur Thapa today inaugurated the project “Renovation of Basketball Court and School Garden” at Meiss Ej-Jebel Technical School. The opening…
On 13 December, UNIFIL’s Sector West conducted an all-female foot patrol in Rmeish with the participation of a dozen peacekeepers from six countries – Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and the Netherlands…
A four-member delegation headed by General Ljubisa Dikovic, the Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, visited UNIFIL from 11 to 13 December 2017. General DIKOVIC’s visit coincides with the deployment of a new…
It's autumn in Lebanon and the Blida olive fields that span the Blue Line are being harvested by Lebanese families before the winter rains come. One of UNIFIL’s Liaison teams is there too. In their bright blue bibs and blue…
UNIFIL peacekeepers today paid their last respect to the 15 UN peacekeepers from Tanzania who lost their lives in an attack last week on their base in North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hundreds of UNIFIL…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Michael Beary today chaired the seventh and last scheduled tripartite meeting of 2017 with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense…
UNIFIL’s Force Commander and Head of Mission Major General Michael Beary joined UNIFIL Sector West Commander Brigadier General Rodolfo Sganga and some 120 other UN Peacekeepers and soldiers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF…
The Italian contingent of UNIFIL’s Sector West Command today conducted an initiative dedicated to the " Lieutenant Colonel Sobhi Akoury" Association, in the Sector headquarters in Shama. The initiative, which aims to advance…
Soldiers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)’s Fifth Intervention Regiment played friendly volleyball and soccer games with UNIFIL peacekeepers at French-led Force Commander’s Reserve (FCR) last week. LAF teams beat UNIFIL…