Lebanon says will hit terrorism as truce holds
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Lebanon's prime minister vowed to stamp out an Islamist militant group that has been locked in fighting with the Lebanese army at a camp in the north of the country where a fragile truce held for a second day on Thursday.
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Lebanese troops inched toward Islamic militant strongholds in a north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday as mediators hinted at a possible cease-fire deal that includes the disarmament of the al-Qaida-inspired militants.
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Lebanon accused Israel on Thursday of using an aircraft last month to detonate a car bomb that killed two officials of a Palestinian militant group in south Lebanon.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Advancing under a blanket of artillery and tank fire, Lebanese troops overran positions held by al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Friday and 18 people were killed.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Lebanon on Monday as part of a Middle East tour to discuss the UN-brokered truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
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The leader of the Fatah al-Islam group threatened attacks against the Lebanese army after it crushed its militants in battles at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon last year.
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Israel's Cabinet became the final party to sign on to the U.N. cease-fire deal Sunday, while Israeli planes blasted Beirut and ground troops battled Hezbollah in south Lebanon seeking to batter the militant Islamic group in the hours before fighting stopped. Hezbollah hit back with its heaviest rocket barrage of the war on northern Israel.
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For Israel, the U.N. cease-fire deal is far from perfect. A U.N. force deploying in south Lebanon as part of the truce will have trouble keeping Hezbollah at bay for long or prevent the Iranian-supplied guerrillas from rearming, critics said, pointing to past failures of international peacekeepers.
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Israel would agree to a cease-fire in its six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah if the Lebanese guerrillas withdraw from the border area with Israel and release two captured Israeli soldiers, a senior official said Monday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Lebanon on Monday as part of a Middle East tour to discuss the UN-brokered truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, an official has said.
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With no clear cease-fire line, any village or hilltop in southern Lebanon is a potential flash point that could bring down the truce between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.
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Al-Qaida reportedly warned the Lebanese and Syrian authorities against harassing Muslim extremists captured in Lebanon for planning terrorist attacks.
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Lebanon on Thursday declared victory in its 33-day war against an al Qaeda-inspired militant group at a Palestinian refugee camp and said its military operation there was over.
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Israeli troops battled Hizbollah   guerrillas across southern Lebanon on Sunday and air strikes   battered Beirut's suburbs as the Israeli army pressed on with   its offensive in the hours until a U.N.-brokered truce begins.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army claimed victory in 33 days of fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants.
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A top Hezbollah official said Sunday that the militant Shiite Muslim group will press ahead with threatened street protests and other peaceful means seeking to topple Lebanon's Western-backed government and will stage its actions without warning.