TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Four militia commanders involved in recent fighting in the northern city of Tripoli turned themselves in to the Lebanese Army Tuesday.
Security sources told The Daily Star that Amer Ibrahim al-Maarouf, Amer Arish, Hussam Abu Mkhaiber and Jamal al-Maneh have surrendered to Army Intelligence.
The sources said all four men are wanted by authorities in connection with gunbattles between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbneh.
The two districts have been feuding since the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, but the traditional rivalry between Alawite Jabal Mohsen and mainly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh has been aggravated by the three-year-old crisis in neighboring Syria.
Lebanon’s Military Prosecutor Saqr Saqr Monday charged an additional 38 individuals over gunbattles in Tripoli.
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