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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
The long hostile Lebanese-Syrian relations appeared officially to be improving, but complications persist over mutual accusations by Syria and the Lebanese ruling coalition over the guardianship of Fatah al-Islam fundamentalist militants, local analysts have said. Lebanese Information Minister Tarik Mitri, who is from the government coalition, was received in Damascus on Sunday for a...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Lebanese majority newspaper Al-Moustaqbal, owned by Sunni leader Saad Hariri, published a report Monday saying that the Fatah al-Islam militant group is founded and controlled by Syrian intelligence officers seeking to destabilize the Lebanese government. The report came one week after the Syrian state TV broadcasted "confessions" by captured members of the group allegedly involved...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Beirut - Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people. We deny any involvement in the Damascus blast ... and the allegations which were...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation...
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, many of them feel frustrated and hopeless,...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Twelve members of Fatah al-Islam, an al Qaeda-influenced group, have taken responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus on September 17. The bombers originated from Lebanon.
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Syria's state television aired on Thursday evening confessions of men said to be Fatah al-Islam militants, who admitted that they carried out a deadly car bombing in Damascus in late September that killed 17 civilians.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Syria's state television aired on Thursday evening confessions of men said to be Fatah al-Islam militants, who admitted that they carried out a deadly car bombing in Damascus in late September that killed 17 civilians. A man identified as Abdul Baqi al-Hussein, described as a security official of Fatah al-Islam in Syria, said they had attempted terrorist attacks in Syria...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Displaced residents of the war-scarred Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp will lose $50 from their $200 monthly rental subsidy starting in November because international donors have not supplied enough humanitarian funding, said a number of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) officials at the camp on Wednesday.
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Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Syrian state television on Thursday broadcast statements by men it said were Fatah al-Islam militants, in which they admitted carrying out a bomb attack in September that killed 17 people.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The Internal Security Force (ISF) issued an explanation on Tuesday after it emerged that the force's commander, General Ashraf Rifi, spoke on the telephone with a member of the Fatah al-Islam militant group shortly before their showdown with the Lebanese military at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in 2007.
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Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
A Lebanese newspaper on Saturday published statements purporting to be by members of Fatah al-Islam showing the radical group had links with Syria and that Damascus had backed an attack in Lebanon. The publication of the "evidence" in al-Mustaqbal newspaper, owned by anti-Syrian
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Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... Road, killing 17 and wounding 64. Nine men and one woman said they acted in coordination with Fatah Al-Islam, a Lebanese group that killed 163 Lebanese soldiers and officers in a three-month battle in Nahr Al-Bared. The woman identified herself as Wafaa Shaker Al-Absi, daughter of Shaker Al-Absi, the leader of Fatah Al-Islam who is on the wanted list of several Arab...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... that linked his party to recent terror attacks in Syria and to the militant, Lebanon-based, al-Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam organization. Syrian television last week aired the confessions of 17 people claiming responsibility for a September 27 car bombing in southern Damascus. Some analysts have questioned the reliability of those confessions. One of those who appeared identified herself...
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AgoraVox (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
You know the Assad regime is desperate when their own creation had to issue a statement denying televised allegations that they were behind a recent Damascus bombing. Fatah al-Islam today denied claims in “confessions” aired by Syrian TV that they orchestrated the attack with Hariri (...)
