Lebanese forces battle militants
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Troops shell militants in a refugee camp in north Lebanon, as they hunt others who fired rockets at Israel.
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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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AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon  - Islamist militants attacked Lebanese troops at a second Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Monday, killing two soldiers and threatening to plunge the country into long-term instability.
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The Lebanese army continues its bombardment of Islamist militants cornered in a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Lebanon's army clashes with gunmen in the northern city of Tripoli, after raiding the house of a suspected Islamist militant.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire on Monday, pressing ahead with an assault to crush al Qaeda-inspired militants dug in there.
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Thousands of Lebanese on Tuesday lined roads and cheered troops triumphant after crushing al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants in a three-month-long battle that became the country's worst internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Al Qaeda-inspired militants and Lebanese troops fought intermittently at a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday as the army tried to force the gunmen out of their hide-outs.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - At least 20 Islamist militants and two Lebanese soldiers were killed on Sunday in a battle near a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, a security source said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Fighting between Lebanese troops and an al Qaeda inspired group resumed on Saturday, a day after troops overran positions held by the militants in a Palestinian refugee camp, witnesses said.
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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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At least fourteen people were killed in fierce fighting between Lebanese troops and Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday, security sources said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops fought al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp and clashed with Islamists at another early on Monday as a 16-day conflict threatened to plunge Lebanon into long-term instability.
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Fighting resumed Monday between Lebanese forces and Islamic militants holed up inside the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp just north of the port city of Tripoli, a day after heavy clashes left six soldiers dead, Lebanese army sources told CNN.
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Lebanon's army pressed on with an offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery Saturday, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods.
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Lebanese troops shell Palestinian militants as a stand-off at a refugee camp enters its fourth week.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - 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.