Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp today where a group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was hiding.

Anti-riot police scuffled with demonstrators in Cairo as Muslims marched in Jordan and Lebanon to express outrage over Israeli renovation work near Islam’s third-holiest shine.

Israel’s military struck Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp early today, killing at least two people and wounding five, officials said. In the eastern Bekaa Valley five people were killed and two feared dead in an Israeli raid.

Israel’s military struck Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp early today, killing at least one person and wounding three others, officials said.

Israel has bombed Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, killing at least one person and wounding three others.

A military prosecutor has charged 35 Arab nationals and alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked terror group with plotting to bomb foreign targets in Lebanon, including the Italian and Ukrainian diplomatic missions, officials said today.

A bomb exploded in a Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, early today, wounding a teenage girl whose father is a known activist for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian security officials said.

A Palestinian terror leader today called on Arabs to volunteer to help defend Iraq in the event of an Anglo-American invasion.

NEARLY 200 al-Qaida operatives, including several senior commanders, have settled in Lebanon with Syria’s permission, taking refuge in a large Palestinian refugee camp there, an Israeli newspaper reported on Monday.

Members of a radical Palestinian faction on Sunday clashed with Lebanese militants inside the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, leaving at least one person wounded, camp officials said.

Two men were killed and seven others wounded today in factional fighting in Lebanon’s biggest Palestinian refugee camp.

A defiant Lebanon greeted US Secretary of State Colin Powell today, with protesters shouting for him to leave and the government saying cross-border attacks on Israeli troops would go on.

Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon rejoiced with celebratory rounds of gunfire and dancing following today's Jerusalem explosion.