Report: Syrian Armed Groups Ready to Advance into Lebanon through Arsal
Syrian armed gunmen are planning to open a front in Lebanon by invading the northeastern border town of Arsal and advancing into al-Qaa, Ras Baalbek and other nearby villages.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Siyassah, the al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the Free Syrian Army have been entrenched for the past two months and a half on the mountains overseeing the Lebanese Bekaa on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
The daily quoted a security figure close to a Mustaqbal Movement official in the Bekaa as saying: “ The armed men can easily recruit around two thousand fighters from Syria's southern Daraa province.”
In December, six Lebanese troops were killed and a soldier was injured as militants staged an ambush against an army patrol in the outskirts of the town of Ras Baalbek on Syria's border.
The clashes came in light of a report published in the British Telegraph newspaper that a British team had saved Ras Baalbek from a "massacre" by advancing Islamic State (IS) militants through constructing a network of military watchtowers in the town.
In recent months, Syria-based IS and al-Nusra Front fighters have fought several battles with Hizbullah and the Lebanese and Syrian armies in the border region.
IS and Nusra militants briefly overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in early August. They abducted a number of troops and policemen as they withdrew from the town.
Four hostages have already been killed by the two groups, and the country has been on edge for months over the fate of the remaining soldiers and policemen.
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I hope they do it and do it soon.
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bless anyone person, entity, brigade, organization or country that inflicts pain and suffering, death and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its supporters, members, or followers wherever they maybe.
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your hatred to hibollah should not be suicidal.
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This is what Ebola is attracting.
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well said maroun al shishani
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Very good. You are dealing with the consequences. You need to think also about the causes. Eliminate the causes and you stop the effects.
Do not forget that Ebola is bringing many disasters and internally destroying the institutions to become the "state at the place of the state"... and this grave issue cannot be solved by 200,000 men...
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Let me say this once in for all if the Syrian Armed groups advance into Lebanon then that would hopefully be their graveyard.
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well said lebcad.
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Rifi will just deny, as always, until it's too late.
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and the other half support the iranian jihadi sectarian "resistance"
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Ahla wou sahla fiyoun, we Lebanese will be more than happy to decorate our lampposts with ISIL, Al Nusra corpses. Like all Syrians, they do not seem to understand that Lebanon is a sovereign nation, whoever they are, we will be more than happy to make mince meant of them evil takfiris.
may you RIP flamethrower