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| Army Battles Militants in Arsal's Outskirts |
| 2014-12-19 |
| [AnNahar] The Lebanese army engaged on Thursday in festivities with faceless myrmidons on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported. NNA said the military targeted the fighters with mortars in the area of Wadi Ata. The gunnies from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and 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 have established footholds in remote mountains along Leb's remote eastern border. Their threat first came to Leb in August, two months after the group's summer blitz in which it seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. In a surprise attack, the faceless myrmidons crossed over from Syria and overran the border town of Arsal, hitting Lebanese army positions and killing and injuring scores of soldiers. After weeklong festivities, the faceless myrmidons pulled back to mountain caves near Syria's border, taking more Lebanese soldiers and coppers with them. The fighters have since executed four of the servicemen. Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... LBCI TV said IS gunnies and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... rebels engaged in battles on Arsal's outskirts on Wednesday. Twenty people, including an FSA official, were killed in the festivities that concentrated in the area of Wadi Mira, it added. |
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