Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Syria Street in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, has become a conflict zone. The two districts it separates were torn apart in violent fighting.
Bab el-Tebbaneh, the Sunni neighborhood, took the side of the opposition, while Jabal Mohsen, the Alawite, joined that of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Today, the fighting has stopped and calm has returned to the two neighborhoods separated by this narrow strip of concrete bearing the name of another country.