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Hariri Youth Supporters Seek Leadership From the Streets
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Gunmen supporting the anti-Assad rebellion clash with their neighboors in the al-Shaarani neighborhood in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan) Gunmen supporting the anti-Assad rebellion clash with their neighboors in the al-Shaarani neighborhood in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan)

Following #Saad_Hariri's recent announcement to participate in a government with Hezbollah, #Beirut's #Sunni youth find themselves looking for alternative leaders they feel can offer them true protection.

Moe Ali Nayel

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#Lebanon #Ahmad_al-Assir #Articles #Chiyah #Future_Movement #MARCH_14 #Rafik_Hariri #Tariq_al-Jdideh

#Lebanon : School Dropouts Soar on #Tripoli Demarcation Lines
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Lebanese army soldiers evacuate civilians caught in sniper fire in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan). Lebanese army soldiers evacuate civilians caught in sniper fire in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan).

At the end of every “battle” in the North #Lebanon city of Tripoli, armed factions count their dead and the state surveys damages. Meanwhile, the media move on, neglecting a whole generation of teenagers dropping out of schools as a result of the never-ending clashes on Syria Street.

Bashir Mustafa

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#Articles #Bab_al-Tabbaneh #Jabal_Mohsen #Lebanese_Ministry_of_Education

Weekend clashes leave 10 dead in North #Lebanon
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Lebanese army soldiers evacuate schoolchildren caught in sniper fire in the Lebanese northern coastal city of #Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan) Lebanese army soldiers evacuate schoolchildren caught in sniper fire in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan)

Ten people, including a woman and an off-duty soldier, have been killed in two days of sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon linked to the war in neighboring Syria, a security source said Sunday. The fighting in the northern port city of Tripoli also wounded 49 people, including 11 soldiers, the source told AFP. On Sunday four people were killed, two of whom were in a truck when they (...)

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Clashes turn deadly in #Lebanon's #Tripoli
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Lebanese army soldiers evacuate civilians caught in sniper fire in the Lebanese northern coastal city of Tripoli on November 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ghassan Sweidan)

At least four people were killed and thirteen injured in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on Saturday in exchanges of fire, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. The dead include a teenage schoolboy and an elderly man who died of heart attack caused by the fighting, the NNA said. Eighteen people, including two soldiers, were wounded in the shooting between gunmen in Bab al-Tabbaneh, whose residents mainly support the rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the adjacent neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, which supports the Syrian leader. read (...)

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