Warily, Lebanon tackles violent spillover from Syria

Lebanese army soldiers are deployed in the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon April 9, 2014. LEBANON/SYRIA-CRISIS REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - For two weeks now, the rifles have been silent along Syria Street in Lebanon's Tripoli, an area shot up so often that even memorial posters of men killed just a few months ago are speckled with bullet holes.

Soldiers patrol quiet streets where gunmen used to fight day and night - part of the Lebanese authorities' most serious effort yet to contain spillover from Syria's civil war since the three-year-old conflict began in its much larger neighbour.