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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nusra Militant Dead, Another Hurt in Arsal Outskirts Blast
2017-04-07
[An Nahar] A member of the jihadist group al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front was killed and another was maimed in a kaboom in the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal on Thursday, state-run National News Agency reported.

It said the bomb was planted by jihadist rivals 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in the Wadi Ajram area in the town's outskirts.

Members of the two groups are entrenched in rugged areas along Leb's eastern border with Syria.

The Lebanese army regularly shells their positions while Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border.

The two jihadist groups briefly overran the town of Arsal in 2014 before being ousted by the Lebanese army after days of deadly battles.
Posted by:Fred

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