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Army Targets Militants on Outskirts of Arsal
[AnNahar] The army targeted on Sunday bully boyz entrenched in Madinat al-Malahi area on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.According to the state-run National News Agency, the army targeted with heavy artillery suspicious movements by gunnies in Madinat al-Malahi area in Arsal's Wadi Hmeid village. Security sources told LBCI that the military targeted a bulldozer for gunnies in the area. The mountainous area has long been a smuggling haven, with multiple routes into Syria that have been used since the conflict began in March 2011 to transport weapons and fighters. Eight Lebanese troops were killed and several others were maimed in bloody festivities that erupted between the army and gunnies in the Tallat al-Hamra festivities on Friday "when snuffies attacked a military surveillance post in Ras Baalbek." Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-26 |
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