Lebanon's peace has at times been a fragile one. In 2005, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (pictured in the poster) was assassinated by a car bomb in central Beirut. Huge public demonstrations against Syria led to the withdrawal of all Syrian military forces in April 2005. The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in 2006 led to a 34-day conflict with Israel that left approximately 1,200 civilians dead, according to the CIA World Factbook.
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