A Syria-based Palestinian faction said today that its truce with Israel was over following a missile strike by Israel that killed at least two Hamas militants in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes fired at least four missiles at a Palestinian base near Beirut today, an official with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command has said.

Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian militants south of Beirut, Lebanese security officials said tonight.

Only the United States stood behind Israel tonight in the face of international condemnation of the reprisal air raid on Syria that plunged the Mideast into deeper turmoil.

Syrians were fixing shattered windows and doors and cleaning their homes today, a day after Israeli warplanes attacked and heavily damaged a nearby camp that was formerly run by Palestinian militants.

IRAN remained the most-active state sponsor of terrorism in 2002, the United States said yesterday as it made no changes to its list of rogue nations, holding it at seven.

The prosecution is set to begin its closing speech as the Lockerbie trial resumes in the Netherlands.