Lebanese troops fight street battles in Tripoli

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Just what people need -- this terrible intense battle while they try to go on with their daily lives.

Lebanese troops fight street battles in Tripoli


| ASSOCIATED PRESS OCTOBER 27, 2014

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Lebanese army tanks pounded Muslim militants’ positions in the narrow streets of a poor neighborhood in Tripoli Sunday, where fighting has intensified.

Several tanks, armored personnel carriers, and Humvees carrying commandos arrived earlier in the day on the edge of the Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood, where clashes were heaviest. Intense gunfire exchanges and sporadic explosions rang out across the neighborhood, the worst fighting Lebanon’s second largest city has seen for months.

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