However, relations have diminished due to ongoing sectarian clashes between Iraq's Sunni and Shia Muslim branches, and the Lebanese Government's support of Hezbollah.

However, the Lebanese army is trying to rearm and modernize itself through new aids and purchases from different countries such as the United States, Belgium, Russia, and The Netherlands.

However, Lebanese resistance groups such as Hezbollah use it to justify attacks against Israeli forces in that region, creating a potentially dangerous flashpoint along the Lebanon-Israeli border.

However, the Lebanese Civil War erupted exactly one day before the Grand Opening date on April 13.

However, as the character Wigand enters the airport, shortly before receiving his subpoena, a woman in the background is seen smoking a cigarette, also, a Lebanese soldier seen smoking briefly while Bergman is being transported to the Hezbollah meeting site.

However, because the relief depicts the Assyrian overland transport of a carved stone statue, the background buildings most likely refer to a foreign village, such as those at the foothills of the Lebanese mountains.

However, a careful investigation of the sequence of Phoenician port establishments on the Lebanese coast will realize a north-to-south gradient, thus, indicating an earlier age for the Phoenician Tripoli.

However, U. S. intervention in the multi-sided Lebanese civil war had disastrous consequences.

However, on January 31, 1990, Lebanese Army forces clashed again with the LF.

However, he was persuaded by members of the Lebanese parliament to remain in office for the rest of his mandate.

However, the French ambassador to Lebanon, Bernard Emié, backed her explanation that she did not hear " the offending remarks " – the discussion took place via an interpreter supplied by the Lebanese parliament.

However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the arrival of Italian, Spanish and Arab immigrants, particularly Syrians and Lebanese, revived trade and agriculture all over the area while further enhancing the city's multicultural flavor.

However, مثل mitl, as found in Syrian and Lebanese Arabic, is also used by Palestinians in other regions.

However, in contrast to the policies of many other sectarian militias ( such as the Kataeb ), and to their own attitudes towards Palestinians, the Guardians took some care to avoid the impression of religious conflict with Lebanese Muslims.

However, apart this minority of committed idealists, the vast majority of the remainder ‘ movements ’ were actually façades or ‘ shops ’ ( Arabic: dakakin ) – slightly politicised neighbourhood militias operating under grandiose pseudo-revolutionary labels – set up by PLO factions ( mainly Fatah ) in a misguided effort to widen its base of local support among the unemployed Lebanese urban youth.

However, since the 1980s, Shi ' a Islam has been spreading rapidly after Lebanese traders set up businesses there.

However, the breaking point did not come until 1976 and the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War on the side of rightist, Maronite-led elements against the nationalist bloc and its allies in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

However, the university is open to all students, regardless of race, nationality, or creed, and has educated men and women from all sections of Lebanese society.

However the Lebanese crisis adversely affected TMA growth and operation.

However, of all the Levantine cuisines, Lebanese cuisine is by far the most popular.

However, clashes erupted between the Lebanese Forces and the Lebanese Army under the control of Michel Aoun on February 14, 1989.

However, in 1976 he withdrew his support after the Syrian invasion on the side of the Lebanese Front.

However in a later internal feud in the Lebanese Forces led by Samir Geagea to remove Hobeika from power, Pakradouni squarely sided with Geagea against Hobeika who escaped to Syrian-controlled area of Lebanon before being assassinated.

However logistics and expense of equipping a town militia or army with large amounts of cotton-based garments is doubtful, when flax-based textiles ( linen ) was in widespread use.

However, the mulatto rebels refused to arm or free their slaves, or to challenge the status of slavery, and their attack was defeated by a force of white militia and black volunteers ( including Henri Christophe ).

" However, under the country's militia system, professional soldiers constitute about 5 percent of military personnel.

However, the militia of the exarch of Ravenna and the Duchy of Pentapolis frustrated the attempt.

However, as Baum was preparing to leave, Burgoyne verbally changed the goal to be a supply depot at Bennington, which was believed to be guarded by the remnants of Warner's brigade, about 400 colonial militia.

However, division in the United States over the war, a lackluster American militia, the incompetence of American military commanders, and swift and decisive action by the British commander, Sir Isaac Brock, kept Upper Canada part of British North America.

However, with the threat of al-Qaeda and the rebel militia, aid is not being delivered effectively.

However, some have accused him of colluding with the Shawnees and arranging the war to deplete the Virginia militia and help safeguard the Loyalist cause, should there be a colonial rebellion.

However, the alarm was raised by a night watchman and Geneva's militia rose to meet the invaders.

However, as nationalism and anger to the Iraqi invasion spread, some children ( along with old men ) volunteered for the Basij militia, often from areas destroyed by the Iraqi invasion.

However, at the same time Mason wrote the General, he also ordered three additional units of the Michigan militia into readiness.

However, in Constantius ' lifetime tribune had acquired a looser definition, and often was used to indicate any military officer, whether part of the Imperial army or part of a town militia.

However, the militia units were mostly untrained, and hundreds of them were unfit for duty.

However, in the absence of a guiding hand in the War Department, Congress attempted to implement an idea for a standing militia force as a peacetime army.

However, historian Robert Malcomson has found this return to be inaccurate: it did not include militia, sailors, dockyard workers or Native Americans and was incorrect even as to the casualties of the regulars.

However, the boat sent from the Rose was intercepted by militia, and Andros was forced back into Fort Mary.

However, various sources state that while the militia gun was posted with Pearson, the two 6-pounder guns of the Royal Artillery under Captain H. G. Jackson occupied a small hillock behind the 49th, and fired over their heads during the engagement.

However, the eight aid workers remained in the custody of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan militia as an Islamic court continued their trial behind closed doors.

However many militia fighters would use taxes / customs as a pretext to extort money.

However, a number of men eligible to fight still remain in the city as part of the local militia.

However, according to Alexander McKee of the British Indian Department, the Indian confederacy lost 19 men killed and an unknown number wounded, though this may not include casualties in the Canadian militia.

However, by 1682, policing remained stagnant-there was only one ensign for the whole Bhandari militia, and there were only three sergeants and two corporals.

However, in January 1887 Italian troops from Somalia fought a battle against Ras Alula Engida ’ s militia in Dogali, Eritrea, where they lost 500 troops.

However, as it had become the county regiment of the Edinburgh area, it was retitled The Royal Scots ( Lothian Regiment ), and it took on a militia battalion and seven battalions of Volunteers from the local area.