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| Army in Firefight with 'Syrian Gunmen' |
| 2014-02-01 |
| [An Nahar] Lebanese troops exchanged fire with unidentified Syrian gunnies near the country's border with Syria Friday, a security source said, after two-cross border incidents in the area. There were no casualties in the shootout, which came after at least one was killed by shelling from Syria and a deadly rebel attack against Syrian forces launched from inside Leb. "Lebanese army forces exchanged fire with gunnies near an army checkpoint in an area near the town of Wadi Khaled," the security source said. He added that the gunnies, believed to be Syrian, had escaped afterwards. The fighting came after a barrage of shells fired from Syria hit the Akkar border city, killing a Syrian man and wounding three other people. Nearby, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels had launched an attack from Lebanese territory against two villages near the Syrian town of Tal kalakh. The Britannia-based group said five fighters, including soldiers, border guards and pro-regime militiamen, were killed. |
| Posted by:Fred |