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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Clashes Erupt in Outskirts of Bekaa Towns of Deir al-Ghazal, Qusaya
2014-10-31
[AnNahar] Armed festivities broke out on Wednesday evening on the Lebanese-Syrian border outside the Bekaa towns of Deir al-Ghazal and Qusaya, in an area that has been witnessing near-daily skirmishes with Syria-based hard boys.

"Clashes are underway in the outskirts of the towns of Deir al-Ghazal and Qusaya on Syria's border," Leb's National News Agency reported.

It said the sounds of artillery shelling echoed in the region "as warplanes flew over the mountains and the sounds of kabooms were heard in most of the Eastern Mountain Range towns."

Earlier, OTV said "five kabooms were heard in Qusaya and Syrian warplanes are flying over the area."

NNA and OTV did not reveal anything about the identities of the parties involved in the festivities.

On October 22, the Qusaya region witnessed festivities between the pro-Damascus Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
-General Command and the 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.

The PFLP-GC has a military base in Qusaya.

Gunbattles had erupted between the PFLP-GC and unknown faceless myrmidons in central Bekaa in August.

The group said at the time that gunnies targeted its post as well as a Lebanese army position in Ain al-Baida near Kfar Zabad.

The PFLP-GC, whose command is based in Damascus, has maintained military bases in the eastern Bekaa Valley as well as in the hills of Naameh south of Beirut for the last 23 years.

The PFLP-GC is the only Paleostinian faction that maintains significant military positions outside the 12 Paleostinian camps in Leb.
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