Months after Qatar talks, fighting continues in northern Lebanon

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TRIPOLI, LEBANON (IRIN) - A few hours after evacuating their bullet-riddled three bedroom flat on the street which divides Sunnis from Shia Allawis in Tripoli's poorest neighborhood, Khaled Mansour and his new wife were woken by the sound of their front room exploding. "The rocket came through the window at dawn," said the 23-year-old accountant with scraggly black beard and traditional white tunic, who had moved his veiled wife and mother into his uncle's flat next door.

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