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Prisoner exchange between Hezbollah and Israel
In a 2 July press conference, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed that the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border raid between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters in the summer of 2006 (providing the needed pretext for the subsequent Israeli invasion of Lebanon) would be handed over to Israel in exchange for five Lebanese prisoners. ...
Iraq wants to set a timetable for US withdrawal
On 7 July, Iraq said for the first time that it wanted to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US and other foreign troops from its territory. “The current trend is to reach an agreement on a memorandum of understanding (with the Americans) either for the departure of the forces or another one putting a timetable on their withdrawal,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...
Iran responds to threats by test-firing missiles
Iran claimed in July that the recent military exercises of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which consisted in the launching of nine missiles, had demonstrated the much-improved military capability of the country in comparison to earlier war games. Commander of IRGC's Joint Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Seyyed Mohammad Hejazi, said that the military manoeuvre by the Corps had been carried out with a different aim and on a more advanced level. ...
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