Lebanese army soldiers take defensive positions behind their armoured carrier during clashes with gunmen of hardline Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir, in Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Islamist gunmen in the southern city of Sidon for a second day on Monday in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence fuelled by sectarian rifts over the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
A Lebanese security source said that a ceasefire had been agreed between the two sides on Monday afternoon and the sound of gunfire died down. The army remained in their positions around the mosque complex.
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