Kassar was born into a Sunni family in Beirut in 1930.

Munla was a member of a Sunni family based in Tripoli.

Hajj was born into a Sunni family based in northern Lebanon in 1955.

Violence also continued to rage near the capital, with news agencies reporting that gunmen killed 14 men from the same Sunni family just north of Baghdad.

The British worked through a Sunni family they installed on the Iraqi throne.

Daouk was born into a Sunni family in 1958.

Freij was born in Hama to a Sunni family on 1 January 1950.

"Ghazaliya is now divided between Sunni families and Shiite families," he said.

He was a member of a Sunni family from Beirut.

Hassan was born in January 1967 into a Sunni family.