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(23 Mar 2014) Syria-related clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad prompted Lebanese troops to deploy to a Beirut neighbourhood to calm tensions on Sunday.
Soldiers in armoured personnel carriers and Humvees fanned across the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Tariq Jadideh.
The deployment came after rival Sunni gunmen exchanged gunfire and rocket-propelled-grenades for several hours in the area, in the worst fighting in the Lebanese capital in nearly two years.
The pro-Assad Arab Movement Party (AMP) said four of his followers were wounded in the fighting.
State-run National News Agency said AMP fought against rival Sunni gunmen.
The fighting comes after days of clashes, also related to the civil war next door in Syria, killed 25 people in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.


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