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- Lebanese army surrounds Islamist gunmen as Syrian crisis spreads
By Ali Hashisho SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Islamist gunmen in the southern city of Sidon for a second day on Monday in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence fuelled by sectarian rifts over the civil war in neighboring Syria. The Lebanese army entered a mosque complex to the east of the ancient Mediterranean port city, where hardline Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmed ...
June 24, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Egyptian government faces blame in mob sectarian killing
By Alexander Dziadosz ZAWIYAT ABU MUSALLEM, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's government promised "exemplary punishment" on Monday after the mob killing of four Shi'ite Muslims near Cairo raised fears of wider sectarian bloodshed at a time of grave national crisis. But Shi'ite minority leaders and the liberal opposition accused the government itself, dominated by the Sunni Islamist Muslim Brotherhood ...
June 24, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News