Three days of fighting in Lebanon camp - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

Three days of fighting in Lebanon camp - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com: "TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanon’s army pounded Islamic militants hiding in a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp Sunday for the third straight day, while fighting erupted outside another camp in the south, stoking fears violence could be spreading throughout the country.

Fierce fighting has engulfed the outskirts of the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon since Friday, when the Lebanese army — using tanks and artillery — launched an offensive to drive the Fatah Islam militants from their positions inside the settlement.

But they have faced strong resistance and the relentless bombardments threaten to anger Palestinians in the country’s other refugee camps, possibly causing violence to spread.

Near the southern city of Sidon, suspected members of the militant Islamic group Jund al-Sham fired a rocket-propelled-grenade at a Lebanese army checkpoint outside a camp Sunday, wounding at least five people, security officials said on customary condition of anonymity." Read complete post here.