Suspected Islamic militants attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, early Friday. Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, two Mauritanians and a French woman were wounded when the attackers also opened fire on a nearby nightclub.

U.S. defense and military officials say they want to step up the training of Pakistani forces in the country's fight against a growing insurgency.

The Pakistani army says it killed 40 Islamic militants and arrested 30 during two days of fighting along its border with Afghanistan. The United States, meanwhile, has offered to train Pakistani security forces in their fight against the al-Qaida-linked militants. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports from Islamabad.

Pakistan was given 30 helicopters, raising its capacity to fight Islamic soldiers by its border with Afghanistan, Pakistan's military announced Monday.

Lebanese army troops unleashed barrages of artillery and tank shells Wednesday at Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, witnesses and security officials said.

At least two Lebanese soldiers died and five were wounded in a mine blast as troops continued to clear out Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, local media said Wednesday.

Lebanese troops have begun a final assault on positions held by Islamic militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a local television station said Thursday.

The Lebanese Army is amassing equipment and troops around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in an operation that should eliminate the last of the Fatah al-Islam extremist group, a Lebanese newspaper reported Tuesday.

Lebanese authorities say four soldiers were killed Friday in ongoing fighting with Islamic extremists in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in fighting, as the army continues its assault against Islamic militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp. Army officials say the soldiers were killed Wednesday inside the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

Heavy black smoke billowed from the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon as Fatah al-Islam militants responded with machine gun fire and anti-tank rockets.

The United States confirmed on Friday it is airlifting ammunition and other military supplies to Lebanon to help the government deal with an uprising by Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. The battle in and around the Nahr el-Bared camp near the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli erupted Sunday.