4 soldiers slain battling militants
Four Lebanese soldiers were killed in battles with Al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp.
Security sources said 15 more soldiers were wounded in the fighting with Fatah al Islam militants at Nahr el Bared camp. There was no immediate word on militant casualties.
The deaths brought to 117 the number of soldiers killed in the fighting that began May 20. More than 81 militants and at least 41 civilians have died in the confrontations, Lebanon’s worst internal conflict since its 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
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