VICE News
The Syrian Spillover: Lebanon (Dispatch One)
2014 • E7 Jan 22, 2014 7m
Combat between Sunnis and Shiites in the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon is escalating as the civil war bleeds over Syria's border into its smaller neighbor. Further exacerbating the conflict, Lebanon has absorbed a reported 1.5 million Syrian refugees. In the wake of a recent spate of car bombs and the tense buildup to the Geneva II convention, VICE News reporter Robert King went to Tripoli to speak with a Sunni Sheikh about how hard the conflict is hitting the Lebanese.