(NSI News Source Info) BEIRUT, Lebanon - August 25, 2010: Two men have been killed in clashes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, between supportersof the Shia Islamist group, Hezbollah, and a rival Sunni faction.The violence erupted in Burj Abu Haidar following a fight outside a mosque.
The Lebanese army was later forced to intervene after the fighting spread to neighbouring parts of the city.
Leaders of Hezbollah and the pro-Syrian conservative al-Ahbash faction later met and issued a joint statement expressing regret for the violence.
Sectarian tensions have risen recently in Lebanon, amid reports that a UN tribunal could soon implicate members of Hezbollah in the assassination in 2005 of the then Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.Continue reading the main story
Hezbollah's leader has dismissed the tribunal as an "Israeli project".
'Personal dispute'
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