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Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.Full story

Troops patrol Tripoli to quell unrest from Syria

  Troops are traveling through the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon, to stop violence erupting between supporters and opponents of neighboring Syria's civil unrest. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

Three killed during Syria-related clashes in Lebanese city

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Three people were killed in further sectarian fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Tuesday, security sources said, raising the death toll from four days of sporadic conflict related to Syria's civil war to nine. Full story

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Islamist preacher Omar Bakri attends an interview with Reuters at his home in Tripoli, northern Lebanon
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Islamist preacher Omar Bakri talks on his mobile phone during an interview with Reuters at his home in Tripoli, northern Lebanon
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