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FILE - Sunni Muslims hold a portrait of imprisoned Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir during a protest against a clause in a proposed amnesty law that would exclude some prisoners, including the cleric, from being eligible for amnesty, after Friday prayers in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon passes a controversial general amnesty law

By Kareem Chehayeb and Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 4, 2011, file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a Lebanese anti-Syrian regime leader, addresses his supporters during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad, where a number of the Syrian Baath Party supporters were also protesting, at the Martyrs square in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon. A Lebanese military prosecutor has charged a hard-line Sunni cleric with being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops and killing of soldiers, demanding he face the death penalty. Lebanon's state news agency reported Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 that military prosecutor Riad Abu Ghaida also charged 56 supporters of cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir with committing crimes against the military. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla,File)

Lebanon prosecutor wants hard-line cleric executed

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Lebanese Army soldiers are seen near a damaged car in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Nov. 11, 2012. Security officials said shooting between Sunni and Shiite Muslim gunmen in southern Lebanon killed one person and wounded at least three. (Associated Press)

Shooting between Lebanese Shiites, Sunnis kills 3

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press