LEBANON

Bid Round Delay Likely As Lebanon Stares Into Sectarian Abyss
 
Lebanon’s Sunni-Shi’a divide is deepening dangerously. Lebanese Salafi militant Ahmad al-Asir – the star of the country’s radical Sunni movement – is on the run after a two-day battle between his partisans and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) left about 60 dead in his stronghold Sidon, a majority-Sunni city 40km south of Beirut.
 
An optimist might interpret these events as a...