NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese troops fought al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp and clashed with Islamists at another early on Monday as a 16-day conflict threatened to plunge Lebanon into long-term instability.
Witnesses said fighting broke out between Jund al-Sham gunmen and the Lebanese army early on Monday at the northern entrance of Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest refugee camp, just hours after an earlier two-hour long overnight clash ended.
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