Troops kill five Islamist gunmen in north Lebanon
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QALAMOUN, Lebanon  - Lebanese soldiers killed five Islamist militants, most of them foreigners, in a clash on the outskirts of the northern town of Qalamoun on Thursday, military and security sources said.
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Five Palestinians were shot dead Wednesday night by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza strip, Israeli and Palestinian sources said Thursday.
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Indian troops killed five guerrillas trying to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side and were locked in a fierce gunbattle with more rebels trying to infiltrate, an army spokesman said on Friday.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops killed six militants during a clash in the northern town of Qalamoun early on Thursday, security sources said.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops killed seven Islamist militants after a 10-hour standoff in the northern city of Tripoli, security sources said.
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TRIPOLI -- Lebanon's army stepped up its assault on Islamic militants hiding inside a Palestinian refugee settlement yesterday, launching artillery barrages and sending in armored carriers and special forces. Five soldiers were killed yesterday and 15 wounded.
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles on Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in fighting with Islamic extremists at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a day after the families of the militants were evacuated, the military said Sunday.
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Lebanese troops clashed with suspected al-Qaida-inspired militants holed up in a neighborhood of the northern port city of Tripoli early Sunday, and at least four people were killed, security officials said.
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Lebanon said on Tuesday its army killed at least 222 Islamist militants from an al Qaeda-linked group in a 15-week battle at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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Thursday, October 21: Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen on Thursday while a soldier died in a militant attack on the territory&#39;s border with Egypt, the army said.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops stormed a Sunni Islamist militant hideout in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday, killing seven of them, including a woman, while battles raged on at a nearby Palestinian refugee camp.
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Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing five militants from the Islamist Hamas group, which controls the coastal Palestinian territory.
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Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched a raid into the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing five Hamas gunmen and a schoolteacher, the ruling Palestinian Islamist faction and hospital officials said.
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BAGHDAD: Five persons including three Lebanese were killed and several injured in firefights in Iraq on Friday. Two supporters of Moqtada Sadr were shot dead and five wounded when Iraqi national guardsmen
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese army helicopters and artillery fired on Friday at Islamist fighters who had retreated into the heart of a Palestinian refugee camp after troops captured all their outlying positions.
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Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, witnesses said. A military spokeswoman confirmed operations were under way but declined to comment on casualties.