Families tell of escape from Lebanon
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Children with grimy hands and dirt-smeared faces peeked through the rusty bars on windows at the old prison in the heart of Sidon. Cells in the two-story stone relic teemed Sunday with refugees from Israel's fierce assault on southern Lebanon.
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The State Department said Friday that Americans in Lebanon should consider leaving when it is safe to do so, and officials made contingency plans for the evacuation of people who cannot leave on their own.
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Two sons of a Pakistani family who won a reprieve from deportation are scheduled to be flown home.
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A family escapes injury after a number of shots are fired at their house in north Belfast, the police say.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon -- Advancing under a barrage of artillery and tank fire, Lebanese troops overran positions held by Al Qaeda-inspired militants on the outskirts of a Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, leaving at least 19 people dead.
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BEDDAWI CAMP, Lebanon  - They appeared as if from nowhere. They prayed and read the Koran on the streets, zig-zagged on motorbikes through the camp. Some said they steeled themselves swimming in freezing streams; but rarely did they speak to anyone.
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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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THE wife and children of Mark Thatcher fled South Africa yesterday to escape the furore that has erupted since the British businessman&#39;s arrest last week for allegedly financing a botched coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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In this battered village near the Israeli border, Hezbollah fighters are about the only people left. A handful of them were uneasy and distrustful as they talked Tuesday but united in their message: Morale is high and Israel will lose.
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Anxious Americans hauled bulging suitcases down a rocky Lebanese beach and into the waiting hold of a U.S. Navy landing craft Friday as the accelerating U.S. evacuation moved thousands away from unrelenting Israeli airstrikes.
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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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LARNACA, Cyprus  - Ships and aircraft scooped more   exhausted people fleeing the fighting in Lebanon to safety in   Cyprus on Saturday in a mass international effort that has so   far evacuated more than 25,000 people.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  -- Relatives of Islamic fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon began leaving the besieged area Friday, according to a Muslim clergyman mediating between the militants and the army.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Scores of Palestinians fled a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday as the Lebanese army prepared to launch a final assault against al Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside.
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Islamist militants are seeking to evacuate their wounded from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where they have been battling the army for more than three months, security sources and a mediator said on Sunday.
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BEIRUT, Sept. 23 -- Some members of Lebanon's parliament are living in a luxury hotel with tight security. Others rarely leave their homes and frequently change their cars and cellphones to foil potential assassins. Still others are abroad, planning to return just hours ahead of a parliamentary...
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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.