Lebanon Targets Militants' Hideouts ; Fighting Worsens Political Crisis

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon Lebanese army tanks pounded a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida on Sunday, targeting its hideouts inside a Palestinian refugee camp after hours of clashes killed at least 22 soldiers and 17 militants.

The violence between the army and the Fatah Islam group erupted both in the northern port city of Tripoli and the adjacent Nahr el- Bared refugee camp. It added further instability to a country already mired in its worst political crisis between the Western- backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition since the end of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.

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Lebanon Targets Militants' Hideouts ; Fighting Worsens Political Crisis

It was the most serious fight the army had engaged in Lebanon in more t...

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