Hezbollah continued its campaign of terror for a fifth straight day, taking on a new region and new religion in the embattled nation: the Druze of Mount Lebanon.
Shouaifat - Flowers cover the bodies of two young Druze men laid out in a tree-lined courtyard among the hills overlooking Beirut, their mothers weeping over victims of Lebanon's latest civil strife.
Aley - Heavy fighting broke out Sunday between supporters of Lebanon's Western-backed government and Hezbollah-lead opposition militiamen in Druze strongholds overlooking Beirut.
More than four Israeli jets overflew areas near the port city of Tyre,' the official said. It happened amid continuing tension in Lebanon after deadly clashes between supporters of the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition. Israeli jets regularly overfly
But fighting broke out overnight in Tripoli between pro- and anti-government gunmen. Security sources said at least two people were killed and five were wounded in the clashes in Lebanon's second largest city. Police put the toll of five days
Abu Suleiman Al Otaibi, formerly one of the group's leaders in Iraq, was killed in a 'fierce battle with the worshipers of the cross' in Paktia, it said without giving the date of the battle. Another Al Qaeda member, identified
Eid bin Hajmahuj Al Shimari was found guilty of shooting dead Ghoneim bin Shoshan Al Shimari with a machine-gun, it said in a statement carried by the SPA state news agency. He was executed in the northern town of Arar
Olmert pressed on with his duties, chairing the weekly cabinet meeting and shifting his public focus towards a visit later in the week by US President George W. Bush to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary and promote peacemaking. 'It is absolutely
We have called on the Israeli army to carry out an impartial investigation for accountability and for the facts to speak for themselves,' Chris Gunness, spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), told AFP. Wafa Al Daghma, 32,
The ministers will discuss the crisis and ways to solve it against the backdrop of past failure by the Arab League to help Lebanon's governing coalition and opposition powers reach a compromise over forming a national unity cabinet and eventually
The IAEA delegation headed by Herman Nackaerts, the director for safeguards operations, starts its technical and specialist talks with Iranian experts on Monday,' Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Teheran's ambassador to the IAEA, said. Soltanieh will head the talks in Teheran 'which
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