Is Lebanon facing a 'new breed' of Al Qaeda?
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Little is known about Fatah al-Islam, but experts say it is similar to other militant groups inspired by Osama bin Laden.
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Heroic fighters to some, dangerous militia to others. The bloody fight that Hezbollah picked with Israel has deepened a longtime divide in Lebanon.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants fought sporadically at a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday and a Palestinian force took up positions to defuse tension at another camp in the south.
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah acknowledges that Israeli troops can sweep across south Lebanon. But if he and his militants can survive and keep fighting, he will cement his image as the unlikely new hero of Arab nationalism.
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Intelligence reports find that al Qaeda may be using the region to launch more sophisticated terror attacks.
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ALGIERS -- Al-Qaeda has rapidly extended its influence across North Africa by aiding and organizing local groups that are demonstrating a renewed ability to launch terrorist attacks in the region, such as the triple suicide bombings that killed 33 people here last month, according to...
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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...
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The Lebanese army's fight against al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants in northern Lebanon marks the first real combat test for the country's weak military in nearly two decades.
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As the Lebanese military battles Fatah al-Islam, a key question remains: What does the Sunni extremist faction want?
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Lebanon, once a byword for terrorism, has turned into the destination of choice for wealthy families from the Mideast.
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KARACHI -- Authorities say they are turning up worrying signs that a home-grown network of extremist groups is spawning new cells and forming ties with Al Qaeda, three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks thrust Pakistan into the US-led war on terrorism.
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QATIF, Saudi Arabia -- Like many Saudi Shi'ites, Abdullah Abdul-Hussein is worried that if the government does not end anti-Shi'ite tirades by influential Sunni clerics, the sectarian conflict ravaging Iraq and threatening Lebanon could spread to his country.
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Even after the Lebanese Army defeated Islamic militants Sunday, Al Qaeda's credo is spreading in Palestinian camps.
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The Qaeda network accused by Pakistanâs government of killing Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown militants.
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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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Yemeni and Western officials are concerned that Al Qaeda-linked radicals are among those making the journey.
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EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon -- Islamic militants attacked Lebanon's A rmy from a second Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, sending residents fleeing through bullet and rocket fire and heightening fears that the country faces a gravely destabilizing campaign by the radical groups that hide out in the country's 12 crowded camps.