Two killed in Lebanon as Palestinian named as suicide bomber

Lebanese army soldiers and forensic inspectors gather at the site of Wednesday's explosion in the southern suburbs of Beirut February 20, 2014. REUTERS/Sharif Karim

TRIPOLI/BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) - Two people were killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Thursday including a military commander from the Alawite minority shot dead on his way to work, security sources said, the latest spasm of violence linked to the Syrian civil war.

In Beirut, a Palestinian man was named as one of two suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the Iranian cultural centre in the capital's southern suburbs on Wednesday, killing at least four other people in other Syria-related violence.