Lebanon: 350 soldiers, police detained
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Israeli troops detained about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police in Marjayoun after capturing the town on Thursday, Lebanon's interior minister said. The Israeli military said nobody was taken prisoner.
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BEIRUT -- A military prosecutor has charged 35 Arab nationals and alleged members of an Al Qaeda-linked terror group with plotting to bomb foreign targets in Lebanon, including the Italian and Ukrainian diplomatic missions, judicial officials said yesterday.
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Thousands of Lebanese troops tightened security around parliament in Beirut on Tuesday but a session called to elect a new president was set to be postponed after the opposition vowed to boycott it.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops seized more territory inside a Palestinian refugee camp in pitched battles on Tuesday against al Qaeda-inspired militants, security sources said.
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Sporadic clashes erupted Monday between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants at a Palestinian refugee camp, injuring one soldier, security officials said.
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Lebanon's army deployed more soldiers in Beirut on Monday after the killing of a pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim demonstrator raised fears anti-government protests could turn into sectarian violence.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair began  a visit to Lebanon on Monday as troops and riot police deployed  in central Beirut to handle planned protests against his stance  during Israel's 34-day war with Hizbollah.
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Lebanese soldiers deployed in several mixed Sunni-Shi'ite streets of Beirut on Saturday and ended sectarian riots that left at least 14 people injured and several cars and shops smashed.
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The Dutch police said today that they had raided a site they described as a terrorist training camp for Kurdish separatists in the southern Netherlands, arresting 38 people
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French police arrested at least 25 people in a major pre-dawn operation Monday north of Paris, targeting the suspected ringleaders of riots last year.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 2 -- The Lebanese army deployed a missile-firing helicopter and soldiers carried out door-to-door searches Saturday in a second day of fighting between the military and a radical Islamic faction based in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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Lebanese are being squeezed, no longer just by fear of bombs, but by the realities of checkpoints and roving patrols of soldiers.
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Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi policemen and shot them in cold blood on Sunday, a day after attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.
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Indian police on Thursday detained about 350 people for questioning in the Bombay train bombings amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon - The Lebanese Army seized control yesterday of a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon after a fierce firefight with members of an Al Qaeda-inspired group, ending a siege that lasted more than three months.
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TABA, Egypt -- Dozens of Bedouins have been detained on suspicion that they may have supplied explosives for car bomb attacks at two Egyptian resorts that killed at least 34 people, officials said yesterday.
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About 300 Syrian soldiers in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday, Lebanese security officials said.