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REPORT: Cautious calm prevails over Lebanon's Tripoli

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19-03-2014 | 07:54

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REPORT: Cautious calm prevails over Lebanon's Tripoli

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Cautious calm is prevailing on Wednesday in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli following overnight clashes.

The committee that follows up on the rights of shopkeepers in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh issued a statement whereby it voiced full support to the army command's efforts in maintaining security and stability and restoring calm between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen following the latest clashes.

The committee's head Mohammad Cardovaki urged President Michel Sleiman to call for an urgent cabinet session in a bid to tackle the security situation in Tripoli.

A new round of clashes erupted in Tripoli on Thursday March 13th killing at least 12 and injuring 63 others.

The port city of Tripoli has long been a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon.

But the city has become increasingly volatile in recent months due to the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority is leading a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.

These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

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