Sectarian violence shakes Lebanon Pictures Sectarian violence shakes Lebanon Lebanese army soldiers help an injured soldier after clashes between followers of radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shiite gunmen broke out in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, June 24, 2013. Lebanese troops battled heavily-armed followers of a hard-line Sunni cleric holed up in a mosque complex in a southern port city on Monday, the second day of fighting that left at more than a dozen soldiers dead, the military said. The fighting, some of the worst involving Lebanese troops in years, was seen as a test of the weak government's ability to contain the furies unleashed by the civil war in neighboring Syria. Credit: Mohammed Zaatari/AP