Sentence examples for the sidon from inspiring English sources

The Sidon area has been identified previously by Washington as home to at least one extremist organization, Asbat al-Ansar.

Sunni anger has intensified following reports that Hezbollah members were fighting alongside the Lebanese army during the Sidon clashes.

Behind me, a dust storm precedes a municipal truck; the Sidon authorities have another load of garbage for their mountain.

The sheik accused the Hezbollah fighters of provoking the Sidon fight by attacking a water truck belonging to his brother, and the anger escalated from there.

In the Sidon cafe, the health worker declared that Syrians, with free education and medical care, had no reason to rebel.

The Sidon tensions underscored the fragility of Lebanon's patchwork of sects, which has further weakened because of the conflict in Syria, raising the risk of destabilizing the country and the broader Middle East.

From the crown of this hill of offal and dirt, you can glimpse the Crusader Castle of the Sea, the Great Mosque of Sidon, the roof of the ancient Khan.

Inscriptions found on the king's sarcophagus reveal that he and his mother, Amashtarte, built temples to the gods of Sidon, including the Temple of Eshmun by the "Ydll source near the cistern".

The clashes in Sidon pitted the Lebanese Army against the armed followers of Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, who has earned national fame through a series of stunts in the news media and public calls for the disarming of the Shiite group Hezbollah, Lebanon's strongest military force, which has been fighting in Syria on the side of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

During the Crusades, Sidon changed hands several times and was destroyed and rebuilt.

It carries oil for a distance of just over a thousand miles across the Arabian peninsula from Abqaiq, on the Persian Gulf to Sidon, on the Meditteranean.