A new sight for me at the Sunni anti-Assad protests in Tripoli (that'll be the Lebanese one) on Friday was a small female contingent, albeit separated from the male demonstrators by a rather stern chaperone.
Following the protests, fighting erupted between militias in two neighbouring yet warring districts of the city. The hardline Sunni/Salafi and Alawite communities have been at each others' throats since the civil war but things are heating up here as it's now a sectarian microcosm for the fighting across the border in Syria. More about that from the tweets of the talented Mr. Joshua Wood here and the BBC. Sadly I filed too late too make the Reuters deadline, dammit.
Apologies for the watermarks but it's still an ongoing news story and bloggers are fond of stealing pictures and not attributing them.
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| A sunni milita man runs beneath a Free Syrian Army flag as he heads toward the fighting. |
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| Streets empty as gunfire rings out. |
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| Tripoli residents cautiously peer down the street at Bab al-Tabbaneh, the Sunni neighbourhood involved in the fighting. |
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