The United States expressed full support Tuesday to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, as it considered providing him extra military aid to counter fresh violence threatening Lebanon's stability.
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Lebanon has asked the United States for $280 million in military assistance to help put down an uprising by al-Qaida-inspired militants operating from a Palestinian refugee camp, the State Department said Tuesday.
Thousands of people were fleeing late Tuesday during a lull in the fighting in the third straight day of clashes between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants holed up in a north Lebanon refugee camp, Associated Press reporters at the scene said.
The United States said Tuesday that the fighting in Lebanon would not prevent a UN Security Council vote on setting up an international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
The United States said on Tuesday it was considering an urgent request from Lebanon for more U.S. military aid to battle Islamist militants and warned Syria against meddling in its neighbor's affairs.
Thousands of Palestinians fled a battered refugee camp in north Lebanon on Tuesday when a fragile truce eased three days of fierce battles between Lebanese army troops and Islamist militants.
The Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah has so far backed Lebanon's army in its confrontation with a Sunni militant group — despite the fact that Hezbollah has been pushing to topple the Lebanese government.
As conflict again sears Lebanon, several films at the Cannes film festival are exposing the restive country's political crisis, and the scars of its successive wars.
A fragile truce allowed aid trucks to enter a battered Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Tuesday after three days of fierce battles between Lebanese army troops and Islamist militants.