Article Photos: Syria conflict deepens sectarian rifts in Lebanon



  In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 photo, peach farmer-turned-fighter Mohammed Yousef, 25, speaks at his house during an interview with The Associated Press, in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families. Residents of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town of 40,000, have strong motives to help those trying to topple Syria's brutal regime: they themselves were harassed and abused by it during three decades of de facto Syrian control of Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 photo, peach farmer-turned-fighter Mohammed Yousef, 25, speaks at his house during an interview with The Associated Press, in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families. Residents of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town of 40,000, have strong motives to help those trying to topple Syria's brutal regime: they themselves were harassed and abused by it during three decades of de facto Syrian control of Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)