Lebanese army vows to step in

Lebanon's army has said it will use force to stop fighting between rival factions.

Iraq blast kills at least 67

At least 67 people have been killed and around 100 injured in Iraq when a petrol tanker packed with explosives blew up in western Baghdad.

Suicide car bombing kills 57

A suicide car bomber has killed 57 people and wounded nearly 160 near one of Iraq's most revered Shia Muslim shrines in Kerbala.

Baghdad blasts kill 200

Almost 200 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a series of massive car bomb exposions in Iraq.