Under constant artillery fire from the Lebanese army, Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon shot back with rockets on Friday.
Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday, escalating their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
Retired General Michel Aoun, the sole declared but hotly disputed candidate with less than 11 weeks to go before presidential elections, sees his candidacy as the only way out for a Lebanon deep in crisis.
Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday in a further escalation of their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
It has been one year since the July War between Israel and Hezbollah militants based in Lebanon. Fawaz Gerges discusses the political and economic situation in Lebanon in the war's aftermath. Gerges is a Carnegie scholar and a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo. He is also Lebanese and was stranded with his three children while visiting Beirut during the war. Gerges talks to ...
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, July 12 -- Under cover of artillery fire, Lebanese troops advanced Thursday on positions held by al-Qaeda-influenced fighters holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Four soldiers and one civilian died in some of the heaviest fighting of the two-month...
In his fourth report, the BBC's Martin Asser looks at the Palestinian refugee camp crisis in Lebanon.
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed in fighting with militants inspired by Al Qaeda holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. In nearly eight weeks of fighting between the army and Fatah al Islam in and around the Nahr al Bared refugee camp, 178 people have been killed, including 90 soldiers and at least 68 militants.
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon • Lebanese gunners and tanks blasted positions of rocket-firing Islamists in heavy clashes around a camp yesterday, as the army’s death toll neared 100 almost eight weeks into a bloody showdown.
The owner of a Lebanon truck stop and his wife were shocked when they recognized a suspected serial killer arrested in Nashville as one of their customers. | | Pete Norman owns Uncle Pete's Travel Center in Lebanon. He is wife Phyliss is a waitress at the truck stop. | | Both said they recognized 56-year-old Bruce Mendenhall, a truck driver from Albion, Illnois who police said admitted...