It was 2 am on Monday morning when the shooting stopped in Beirut's Sunni neighborhoods. Scores of masked gunmen on mopeds rushed back to their hideouts, leaving the streets to the heavily deployed Lebanese army. It was the latest episode of unrest (...)
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Abou Ahmad has been fighting in Tripoli's Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh since he was a teenager. Battles come and go. But for the past few days he has felt the fighting was not going to end. “God knows when we'll be done!” (...)