Splinter group Fatah Al-Islam is at center of uprising in refugee camp. BEIRUT, LEBANON, May 23, 2007 — -- Fatah al-Islam, a radical Sunni Islamist group, has come under the spotlight this week.

Heavy gunfire rang out from inside a bombed out Palestinian refugee camp Sunday as the Lebanese army pounded Islamic militants holed up inside during the third day of a military offensive aimed at ...

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army pushed its assault on the remaining Fatah al-Islam militants in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on Thursday, even as religious leaders held talks with the gunmen in an attempt ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanese troops captured the spokesman for Fatah Islam and three other militants early Saturday, about two weeks after the army crushed the Al-Qaeda-inspired group in a northern ...

After spending hours huddled in basements and bathrooms as gunfire raged nearby, hundreds of Lebanese in this northern port city emerged to cheer on army troops who battled a shadowy Islamic militant ...

Fatah al Islam supporters carry the body of their leader, Abdulrahman Awad. Awad is draped in the flag of the al Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq. Reuters photo. The leader of a ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s defense minister declared victory Thursday over the Fatah Islam militant group, saying it had been crushed after a monthlong military assault on its stronghold in a ...

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration on Monday placed on its terrorism blacklist a Lebanese Islamist group blamed for major fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp. The State Department announced that ...

Fatah al Islam supporters carry the body of their leader, Abdulrahman Awad, after he was killed in August. Awad is draped in the flag of the al Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq. Reuters ...

As Fahed Farachi, 22, hunkered down in his family's dwelling -- just a few hundred yards from the entrance to the Nahr el-Bared camp here north of Tripoli -- he heard the chants of Fatah Islam ...

Lebanon's defense minister said Thursday the Fatah Islam militant group holed up in a northern refugee camp has been defeated after a month-long military operation, and that only mopping up remained.

The showdown between the Lebanese army and the Fatal al-Islam group began at 7 a.m. Friday morning when the army started shelling the camp very heavily. The soldiers have several 155-mm artillery guns ...