where they have been embroiled over the past week in clashes with militants, particularly in the city's refugee camp. Hamas is a political rival to the Fatah party that dominates the Palestinian ...

Islamist militants attempted to escape the Nahr el-Bared camp Lebanese Army source said 37 militants killed in clashes at the camp Fatah members have fought with troops in the camp for past 3 ...

Fatah al-Islam, (Arabic: فتح الإسلام, English: Conquest of Islam) is a radical Sunni Islamist group that first formed in November 2006. It has been described as a militant jihadist ...

Three people died in the attack. The military wings of Palestinian militant groups Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for that bombing. In April 2006, 11 people died in a suicide ...

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said he was ready to hold presidential and parliamentary elections ...