Lebanon: Fighting enters third day

Artillery and machine gun fire echoed around a crowded Palestinian refugee camp today as fighting resumed between besieging Lebanese troops and Islamic militants holed up inside, ending a nighttime lull.

At daybreak, Lebanese artillery attacked the suspected positions of the Fatah Islam militants, seeking to destroy the group or force them out of the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city. A plume of black smoke billowed from an unknown target in the camp.