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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Warplanes Raid Outskirts of Arsal
2015-03-15
[AnNahar] Syrian warplanes raided on Saturday posts controlled by gunnies on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the targeted positions lie in Khirbet Younine area on the outskirts of Arsal in Leb's Eastern Mountain range.

Syrian warplanes continuously target areas along Leb's border since the uprising against the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
erupted in 2011.

Arsal, a predominantly Sunni area, backs the uprising against Assad.

The town lies 12 kilometers from the border with Syria and served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria, but the Lebanese army stepped up it's security measures in the village to stop infiltration.

It was overran in August by gunnies belonging to the two 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 and 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who withdrew from the town by taking several soldiers and coppers hostage. Four have been so far executed.

The jihadists remain entrenched on the outskirts of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
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