Lebanon's political factions including the pro-Syrian opposition Hezbollah on Saturday began two days of talks in France to try to ease the deadlock paralysing the nation.
Lebanon's political groups are meeting in France to try to end a prolonged political crisis gripping the nation.
Lebanese troops pounded a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Saturday where barricaded al Qaeda-inspired militants clashed with them and fired at least two Katyusha-type rockets.
— People with physical and mental disabilities and low incomes need a place to live in Warren County, according to a nonprofit group that plans to build apartments for them in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert toured the country's northern border with Lebanon on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the war against Hezbollah guerrillas.
Lebanon's rival parties are meeting in a French chateau for long-awaited talks aimed at taking the first step to tackle the country's political and sectarian crisis.
Lebanon's rival political factions have begun two days of talks in France to try to ease the deadlock paralysing the nation. The talks outside Paris opened as Lebanese government troops were locked in fierce fighting with Islamist militants around a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon: Two Lebanese soldiers were killed as troops closed in on positions of die-hard Islamists holed up in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp taking the toll after two days of heavy fighting to 11.
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.
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon - Lebanese troops closed in on positions of die-hard Islamists holed up in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday after two days of heavy fighting in which 11 soldiers were killed.