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Lebanese army arrests twelve armed men in the border town of Arsal

17-08-2014 | 09:50

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The state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday that the Lebanese Armed Forces arrested 12 Syrian armed men in an ambush in the east of the border town of Arsal.

The 12 men are suspected of belonging to armed terrorist groups that clashed with the Lebanese army earlier this month.

20 soldiers have been killed and at least 30 other ISF and LAF soldiers remain missing in the wake of deadly clashes that erupted in the northeastern border town of Arsal on August 01.

Clashes flared up when Syrian gunmen deployed across the region after the Lebanese Armed Forces arrested Syrian national Imad Ahmad Jomaa at a checkpoint.

On Thursday (August 07), a military source stated that a truce in Arsal appeared to be holding and the situation in the border town was quiet.

The sources said LAF troops were combing the area in eastern Lebanon to see if gunmen were withdrawing under the terms of the truce.

Lebanese security officials say the fighters include members of al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, and an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State, which has seized swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.

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