Israeli soldiers are given red roses on their return from the Israel-Lebanon border in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona. Lebanon was poised to start deploying government troops to Hezbollah's longtime bastion in the south as Israel announced its forces had began pulling back following its month-long conflict with the Shiite militant group.(AFP/Denis Sinyakov)
A Lebanese man looks out from his destroyed apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006 Tens of thousands of people have returned to their shattered villages in eastern and southern Lebanon as well as Beirut's southern suburbs to find their homes either damaged or totally destroyed in a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)