Middle East Today: Lebanon --- Two Rockets Hit Near Beirut

Iraq: At Least 11 Killed in Attacks

Gunmen and other attackers killed at least eleven people and wounded more than two dozen in attacks on Sunday.

In Kazimiyah district in northern Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car killed three civilians and wounded another.

In the northern city of Mosul, a car bomb went off at a house early in the morning while a joint army-police unit was conducting door-to-door searches. The blast killed three policemen and one soldier. Twenty people, including four civilians, were wounded.

Attackers gunned down a policeman in his car in in central Mosul, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

In the western province of Anbar, three soldiers were killed and five wounded in two separate attacks by roadside bombs.

Lebanon: Rockets Hit Near Beirut

Two Grad rockets have struck a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Lebanese State TV said five people, three of them Syrians, were wounded in Shiyyah. One rocket hit a car dealership, and another landed on the balcony of a nearby residence.

The rocket launcher was found in a forest to the southeast on Mount Lebanon.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which came hours after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke about his organisation's alliance with the Syrian regime against the US-Israeli-Al Qa'eda attempt to topple it.

State media reports that Tripoli, the northern city where more than 20 people were killed in clashes last week, is quieter this morning with "sporadic gunshots". Overnight, there were gunfire and missile launches in the neighbourhoods Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tebbaneh, where most of the fighting between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime has occurred.