REPORT: Army chief: LAF soldiers dossier will remain our main concern

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REPORT: Army chief: LAF soldiers dossier will remain our main concern
Lebanese Armed Forces chief Jean Kahwaji lauded on Tuesday the "bravery and extraordinary heroism" of the soldiers who were killed in Arsal, northeast of Lebanon.

"The soldiers' blood has shielded Lebanon from a potential breakdown and prevented the transfer of sedition into the country," Kahwaji told a delegation of the soldiers' families in Yarzeh.

"The file of LAF soldiers who were martyred or kidnapped is the Army Command's main concern," he said, noting that it will not rest until full justice is achieved and all missing soldiers return to their families.

20 Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers have been killed and at least 28 other Internal Security Forces and LAF soldiers remain missing in the wake of deadly clashes that erupted in the northeastern border town of Arsal on August 1.

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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