Twin car bombs have exploded outside mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least 27 people, wounding over 350 and wreaking major destruction in the country’s second largest city, officials said.

Gunmen have ambushed a van carrying a Turkish Airlines crew in the Lebanese capital and kidnapped a pilot and a co-pilot.

Gunmen have ambushed a van carrying a Turkish Airlines crew in the Lebanese capital and kidnapped a pilot and a co-pilot.

Syrian authorities have beefed up security measures in Damascus as rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad urged supporters to mark the second anniversary of the country’s uprising by stepping up attacks against the regime.

Syria has bombed a security building that had been taken over by rebels on the Turkish border, wounding at least 11 people and sending dozens of civilians fleeing across the frontier.

A senior security official is among at least eight people killed in a huge car bomb attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

A senior security official is among at least eight people killed in a huge car bomb attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Two people were killed and 15 others injured in street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital overnight as the spiralling conflict in neighbouring Syria spilled across the border.

One person was killed and 10 injured in overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni Muslim groups that support and oppose the Syrian regime, Lebanese security officials said today.

The remains of a body have been found on the rear tyres of a plane that flew from Beirut to the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Lebanon’s state news agency said today.

Two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel today, prompting Israel to respond and fire at least two rockets back, Lebanese security and military officials said.

Lebanese troops exchanged fire with militants on the run today, as the military swept a Palestinian refugee camp and surrounding areas in northern Lebanon to try to capture the last holdouts after a climactic battle.

Lebanese army helicopters stepped up raids today on al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s north, after five soldiers were killed, a senior military official said.

Lebanese authorities have arrested four Palestinians outside a southern refugee camp who allegedly confessed to planning bombings inside the country, a senior security official said today.

Lebanese troops opened fire at angry Palestinian demonstrators trying to march back home to their besieged camp in northern Lebanon today, killing two, the state-run National News Agency said.

Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and a fourth was critically injured today while dismantling a bomb placed by al Qaida-inspired Islamic militants in a northern Palestinian refugee camp, officials said.

Heavy fighting shattered a brief lull as the Lebanese army continued bombarding suspected hideouts of militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s deepening political crisis worsened today, with ministers in the anti-Syrian government fearing for their lives after an assassination of one of their own, businesses on strike and all sides ignoring calls for a negotiated resolution.

A Lebanese Cabinet minister allied with Hezbollah resigned today, making him the sixth to quit in recent days.

Israeli artillery pounded villages and hills throughout south Lebanon while a complete curfew was imposed on any civilians still trapped in the heart of the war zone.

Warplanes resumed strikes on targets across Lebanon today as Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee the south “immediately”, preparing for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI forces yesterday withdrew from five villages in southern Lebanon and UN troops set up new checkpoints as Lebanese troops rolled into the area.

Israel is to hand over the corpses of three Hezbollah guerrillas killed in this week’s border clashes to Lebanon.

Lebanon is demanding that Israel return the corpses of three Hezbollah guerrillas killed in this week’s border clashes, saying such a move was vital to restore calm to the area.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive in Beirut today for a surprise visit, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

An explosion rocked a shopping area and sparked a fire near a Christian radio station and a church in the port city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, killing at least one person.

Nepal’s new anti-corruption agency has charged former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba with distributing state money to party workers while in office, the state-run news agency said today.

A day after a bombing injured five people in Beirut, President Emile Lahoud pledged to do his utmost to end the spate of violence that has gripped Lebanon since last month’s assassination of former premier Rafik Hairiri.

Gunmen in Iraq have abducted a seven-year-old Lebanese boy and are demanding a ransom for his release, Lebanon’s official news agency reported today.

An Iraqi militant group has confirmed on a website that it has beheaded a captive US marine.