8 juin 2007

     The Lebanese troops pounded al Fatah al Islam militants dug in at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el Bared in north Lebanon on Friday after the gunmen refused demands they give themselves up. Artillery and tanks blasted several areas of the squalid Nahr al-Bared camp, where Fatah al-Islam militants have shown stiff resistance in nearly three weeks of often ferocious battles. Lebanese sources said the Islamic Action Front, which includes Sunni politicians and clerics, would continue its efforts to find a... [Lire la suite]

     Damascus is interested in renewing the peace process with Israel, a Syrian official said yesterday, one day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made similar remarks. "Our stance remains as it was. We are ready to renew negotiations for peace and interested in working for peace," the Syrian official told the Agence France-Presse news agency. Referring to Olmert's call for a resumption of direct negotiations with Syria, the official said: "Syria is following the Israeli announcements very closely."... [Lire la suite]

      A bomb went off near a Christian town north of Beirut on Thursday, killing at least one man and wounding three others, in the latest string of explosions that have shaken Lebanon since fighting erupted between army troops and Islamic gunmen in a northern refugee camp three weeks ago. Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the media, said the blast occurred in an industrial area in the town of Zouk Mousbeh, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Beirut and... [Lire la suite]