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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese Army Slowly Crushing Extremists near Syria Border
2016-06-25
[AnNahar] In a remote corner of Leb near the border with Syria, Lebanese troops have been quietly making steady progress, fighting against Islamic murderous Moslems holed up in the rugged mountains.

It is a fight less visible than the war against 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 in Syria, Iraq and Libya. But hardly a day passes without army artillery stationed on the edge of the town of Arsal pounding nearby Lion of Islam positions.
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