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Barbed wire between Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen on Syria Street, Tripoli, Lebanon. (The Majalla/Hannah Lucinda Smith)

A Taxi Ride down Syria Street

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Sep 14, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

Thirty seconds into the taxi ride, Ahmed answers the question that I didn’t want to ask. “I’m a Sunni,” he says, “and I think that Assad needs to go. That regime has been there for forty years. Why? Where is the democracy?” The escalating sectarian war in neighboring...

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A man talks on the phone as he walks past damages caused by the bombs that hit two mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli August 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim)

Two Syrians and three Lebanese charged with Tripoli attacks

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Lebanese judiciary has charged two Syrians and three Lebanese in connection with last week’s two bomb attacks on the Al-Taqwa and Al-Salam mosques in Tripoli. The twin attacks killed 50 and injured more than 500. With the twin blasts...

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Lebanese civilians gather next to the site of a blast outside the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli on August 23, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Lebanon: Two blasts shock Tripoli

by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Aug 24, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two powerful bomb attacks shook Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli shortly after Friday prayers, leaving at least 47 dead and over 500 injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the two attacks so far. The explosions come a week after a car...