Lebanon

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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)