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(Press release - Deputy Secretary-General visits UNIFIL, 24 November 2011) Naqoura, Lebanon – United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro visited the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) where she met with Force…

Naqoura, Lebanon – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today held a ceremony at the Mission headquarters to observe the 33rd anniversary of its peacekeeping presence in southern Lebanon. Peacekeepers…

Media agencies are invited to a Joint Exercise in natural disaster response in the area adjacent to the LAF Headquarters Barracks in Tyr, close to the Hotel Platinum roundabout, at 8:30 am on Sunday, 27 February 2011. The two…

Naqoura, Lebanon – An exercise in large-scale disaster response was conducted on 26-27 February jointly by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), in cooperation with a number…

Beirut, Lebanon - Rear Admiral Luiz Henrique Caroli of Brazil assumed command of the Maritime Task Force (MTF), the naval component of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), today in a ceremony aboard a ship at…

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Naqoura, 12 January 2011 -- The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today remembered fallen comrades who died in the devastating earthquake in Haiti last year, honouring them in a ceremony at UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura…

On Friday, 7 January 2011, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) carried out a combined live firing exercise. The exercise was conducted by the Field Artillery Battle Group…

Naqoura, Lebanon – Lebanese President Michel Sleiman today paid a visit to the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at Naqoura in southern Lebanon. President Sleiman expressed the appreciation…

14 December 2010 - UNIFIL took another step today towards implementation of the Joint DPKO-UNIFIL Technical Review recommendations with the withdrawal of Main Battle Tanks (Leclerc) from its Quick Reaction Force, to be…

15 November 2010 - UNIFIL helped mediate the rescue of an elderly Lebanese woman who was caught in barbed wire in a minefield along the Blue Line near Al-Boustan in southern Lebanon. On the evening of Saturday 13 November…

30 November 2010 - United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams and UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas today met with Acting Director General Rafi Barak of the Israeli Ministry of…