| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Leb factions shoot it out after Tripoli bombs |
| 2008-08-19 |
| Rival Lebanese factions have exchanged gunfire after two bombs were thrown in a restive neighborhood of the northern port city of Tripoli. According to eyewitnesses, the Lebanese army intervened to calm the situation 10 minutes after violence broke out between the two opposing sides. "The army fired at the place from where the bomb was thrown, in a sector separating Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen," an unnamed army spokesman told AFP. There were no reports of any casualties. The latest clashes follow a decision by the country's Supreme Defense Council to step up security measures across the country after last week's deadly bus blast in Tripoli that killed 18 people and left several others injured. During the past four months, the city has been the scene of deadly clashes between opposition supporters and those loyal to the Western-backed March 14 coalition. |
| Posted by:Fred |