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Major diplomatic push underway over Syria 22/05/2013 02:24 CET Syrian rebels claim Assad forces massacre 85 in… 21/04/2013 22:45 CET Civilians targeted by Syrian air strikes claims Human… 11/04/2013 18:45 CET Syrian airforce bombs Homs 11/03/2013 16:15 CET No sign of freedom for UN Golan peacekeepers 08/03/2013 16:15 CETThe Syrian war’s stark sectarian divisions have been highlighted with an appeal from a leading Sunni Muslim cleric for holy war against the government.
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian based in Qatar, called on all who were able to undertake jihad to go to Syria to defend those who were being killed by the regime.
It follows the recent intervention by the Shi’ite Lebanese group Hezbollah which said it was fighting alongside President Assad’s forces in Qusair, the strategically important border town.
This weekend has seen more fierce fighting in the area.
In Lebanon elections have been postponed due to the Syrian war. On Friday Sunni protesters in Tripoli chanted their support for Syria’s rebels and their opposition to Hezbollah.
Sheikh Bilal Masri, a Sunni cleric, called it the “party of the devil”:
“We fought in Hezbollah’s ranks, we resisted the Israeli enemy. But now we find that the Israeli enemy is more merciful to Sunnis in Syria than Hezbollah,” he said.
The prominent role of Hezbollah fighters has Syrian rebels, who have threatened to take the battle into Lebanon.
Yesterday several rockets were reportedly fired from rebel-controlled Syrian territory into Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley.
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