CNN's Arwa Damon has the latest developments on 2 mosque bombings in Lebanon. Would you like to know more? Twin bombings rock mosques in Tripoli, Lebanon http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/23/world/meast/lebanon-tripoli-blast "A pair of blasts in Lebanon, the magnitude of which have not been seen since the 1980s, is raising fears of heightening sectarian tensions. The two powerful explosions ripped through neighborhoods near mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday. At least 27 people died and 600 were wounded in the bombings, Lebanese Red Cross head George Kettanah said. State media reported that the toll could be much higher. The death toll of these explosions is high compared with the political assassinations that have occurred in the past eight years in Lebanon, but the bigger fear is that civilians could become targets anywhere in the country..." Hezbollah 'Deeply Rooted In Lebanese Society' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhBDdGaxTE Hezbollah Publically Admits Involvement In Syria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBXArJesat0 Lebanon car bomb death toll rises to 22 (CNN, Aug 16, 2013): "At least 22 people were killed and hundreds injured when a car bomb rocked a southern suburb of Lebanon's capital, authorities said Friday, raising the death toll from the blast a day earlier. The bomb Thursday was in an area known as a stronghold of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, the Lebanese Army said. At least 228 others were injured, the Lebanese Internal Security Forces said..." Deadly Lebanon blast in Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah (BBC, Aug 15, 2013): "At least 16 people have been killed by a large blast in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, with some 200 more reported wounded. The area contains strongholds of the Shia militant movement Hezbollah. The explosion happened in a densely populated part of the capital. Heavy damage was reported ... The blast is being linked to the conflict in Syria, which has worsened sectarian tensions in Lebanon" Syrian conflict: Many dead in Lebanon border air strike (BBC, Aug 3, 2013): "At least six people have been killed in a Syrian war plane attack on the town of Yabroud, just across the border from Lebanon, reports from Lebanon say. Nine people were wounded in the attack near the Lebanese town of Arsal, which hosts many refugees from Syria ... Both sides in the Syrian conflict have allies and supply lines in Lebanon..." Gen. Martin Dempsey Warns U.S. Intervention in Syria Will Trigger Wider War (freebeacon, July 23, 2013): "US military intervention in Syria on behalf of Syria rebels fighting the al-Assad regime risks embroiling the US and states in the region in a wider conflict, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a letter to Congress. Army Gen. Dempsey provided a mainly negative assessment of U.S. military intervention and warned that joining the war in Syria could assist Islamist extremists..." Pro-Assad Syrian official killed in Lebanon (BBC, July 17, 2013): "A senior Syrian official, Mohammed Darrar Jamo, has been shot dead in the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand. Mr Jamo, a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was attacked early on Wednesday morning as he entered his house. Lebanese sources say gunmen opened fire on him but left his wife, who was with him at the time, unharmed. The attack is being seen as the latest sign of how the conflict in Syria is...." Lebanon Shiites ousted from Gulf as Hezbollah fans (ND/Reuters, July 11, 2013): "... A Lebanese diplomat stationed in the Gulf confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the stepped-up deportations from Saudi Arabia have begun, adding that he has documented an average of three cases a week in the past three weeks. Farhat, like hundreds of other deportees, was never given an official reason for his family's expulsion, and was not able to challenge it in court or at a government agency..." Lebanese soldiers die in Syria-linked clashes in Sidon (BBC, June 23, 2013): "At least 6 Lebanese soldiers have been killed in clashes with Sunni militants in the port city of Sidon. The army said fighting broke out after supporters of a radical Sunni cleric opened fire on a checkpoint. It said 3 officers were among the dead and several other soldiers were wounded. Sectarian tensions in Lebanon have risen since the country's Shia movement Hezbollah backed Syria's government...." 'The battlefields are merging': Surge in violence raises fears of new war in Iraq and beyond (NBC, June 21, 2013): "A major uptick in sectarian violence which has killed about 2,000 people since April 1 has sparked fears that Iraq is heading for a full-scale civil war that could draw in powerful regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. There are already signs that the current conflict is starting to merge with the bitter fighting in Syria, creating a war zone from the Mediterranean Sea to the..."

• published: 23 Aug 2013
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