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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army Targets Militant Posts on Outskirts of Arsal
2014-12-07
[AnNahar] The Lebanese army targeted on Saturday posts for snuffies on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal with heavy artillery, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA, said that the shelling was accompanied by a reconnaissance plane that fired surface-to-air missile.

Causalities were inflicted, the news agency said, without specifying further details.

On Friday, fierce festivities erupted between the Lebanese army and gunnies on the outskirts of Arsal.

Jihadists from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group are entrenched on the outskirts of the town on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.

The army engaged in a fierce shootout in August with jihadists who streamed across the border.

Fighting ended with a truce mediated by holy mans, but the jihadists took with them the Lebanese army and police hostages.

At least four have since been executed and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i-led efforts to free the rest have so far failed.
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