Rockets Hit Hezbollah Strongholds in Beirut

BEIRUT—Violence linked to the war in Syria crept closer to the Lebanese capital, as rockets struck a Beirut suburb dominated by Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

The Sunday morning rocket attacks, launched from within Lebanon, came a day after Hezbollah's leader issued his strongest declaration yet of the group's support for the embattled Syrian regime.

The attacks on the southern fringes of Beirut, which didn't claim any lives, were the first such strikes near the capital in the more than two years of a civil war in Syria that has sent artillery into Lebanese border areas and embroiled local factions in fighting in the north of Lebanon.

Fighting in the northern city of Tripoli between Lebanese Sunnis, who back Syrian rebels, and Lebanese Alawites, from the same sect as Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, has killed 30 people and injured more than 200 in the past eight days, a Lebanese security official said. It has been the fiercest and longest bout there between the longtime rivals in many years.