BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has charged a dozen people including a prominent Alawite leader with belonging to an "armed terrorist organisation", judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a drive to control sectarian violence fuelled by the war in Syria.
Around 30 people have been killed in the past month in Lebanon's northern coastal city of Tripoli in clashes between Sunni Muslims and members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also belongs. The rebels fighting Assad's forces are mostly Sunni.
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