Lebanon's Major Killings and Attempts
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The slaying of billionaire businessman and former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, bore the hallmarks of a decade of attacks targeting politicians, militant leaders, Palestinian refugees, religious leaders and foreign residents. These include:
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, intensifying reprisals   that have killed 47 civilians since Lebanese Hizbollah fighters   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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LONDON -- The Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights group Amnesty International said today.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in heavy fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday and three soldiers died in the heavy battles, security sources said.
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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's political crisis worsened yesterday, with government ministers fearing for their lives after an assassination of one of their own, businesses on strike, and all sides ignoring calls for dialogue.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Heavy fighting raged on Tuesday between Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp, the battleground for Lebanon's bloodiest internal violence since the civil war.
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Developments Tuesday in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon:
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops directed artillery and tank barrages at al Qaeda-inspired militants dug in at a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday, the third day of an intensified assault to crush the gunmen.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The Lebanese army shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants cornered in parts of a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday and security sources said two more soldiers were killed in the fighting.
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Israel's air raid on in the Lebanese town of Qana, which killed 28 people, may be part of a larger pattern of violations of international law in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report Monday.
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Lebanon's worst internal violence for two decades is in danger of spreading throughout the country.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas are trying to recruit Palestinian militants for attacks on Israelis in order to sabotage Middle East peace efforts, senior Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut on  Tuesday has interrupted an 18-month  relative safety for  anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and intellectuals, and signals  the kick-off  of a series of events aiming at totally  destabilising the ailing national government and  dividing the  Christian community in the country -- and possibly plunging the  entire region  into chaos.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in pitched battles with al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday as Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war entered its 10th week.
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The deadly volley of shelling and sniper fire at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon intensified and fighting broke out at another camp in southern Lebanon.
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Lebanese troops battled al-Qaida-inspired militants Friday in a Palestinian refugee camp where violence has raged for three weeks. The clashes in northern Lebanon came hours after a bombing in a Christian town northeast of Beirut killed at least one man.