Lebanon says Islamic militants defeated
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Lebanon's defense minister declared victory Thursday over the Fatah Islam militant group, saying it had been crushed after a monthlong military assault on its stronghold in a northern refugee camp and only mopping up remained.
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - Israel ousted Hizbollah   guerillas from a stronghold just inside Lebanon on Saturday   after several days of fierce fighting, the army said, as it   bombarded targets across the south of the country.
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Lebanon's defence minister says at least 222 Fatah al-Islam fighters were killed in the Nahr al-Bared siege.
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Hezbollah and its backers, not the government, now appear in control of Lebanon&#039;s fate.
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QALAMOUN, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops killed six Islamist militants during a clash in the northern town of Qalamoun early on Thursday, security sources said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - At least 20 militants and two Lebanese soldiers were killed in a battle on Sunday when fighters from the Fatah al-Islam group tried to flee a Palestinian refugee camp, a security source said.
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Â·  Attempted breakout leaves 32 militants deadÂ· Lebanon's worst violent episode since civil war
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Lebanese soldiers die in fighting with Islamist rebels in a Palestinian refugee camp, despite a declared victory.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The Lebanese army shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants cornered in small parts of a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday and security sources said two more soldiers were killed in the fighting.
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Sporadic gunfire and occasional blasts were heard Friday from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a day after Lebanon's defense minister declared that Islamic militants inside the camp were defeated and that major combat was over.
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BEIRUT - Lebanon said yesterday that its army killed at least 222 Islamist militants from a group linked to Al Qaeda during a 15-week battle at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops on Sunday seized control of a Palestinian refugee camp where they had been battling militants for more than three months, killing at least 31 fleeing fighters, security sources said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Monday, where the army has reported advances after a month of fighting.
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AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon  - Islamist militants killed two Lebanese soldiers at a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Monday in an apparent attempt to relieve pressure on al Qaeda-inspired fighters besieged by the army in the north.
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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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Lebanese leaders vowed on Thursday to stamp out an Islamist militant group that has been fighting the army at a camp in the north of the country.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Twenty Islamist militants and two Lebanese soldiers were killed in a battle on Sunday near a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, a security source said.