REPORT: Lebanon's FM Bassil calls for full "liberation" of Arsal

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REPORT: Lebanon's FM Bassil calls for full "liberation" of Arsal
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil stressed on Monday the need to proceed with the "liberation of Arsal," a Lebanese northeastern border town where fierce clashes had recently erupted between gunmen and army troops.

"A security settlement is the solution, not negotiations with armed groups," Bassil told reporters.

FM Bassil also said he has asked Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin to provide assistance to the Lebanese army in its fight against terrorism.

At least 30 Internal Security Forces members and Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers remain missing, presumably kidnapped by the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front militants, 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 Imad Jomaa at a checkpoint.

The clashes left at least 20 soldiers dead and 86 injured.

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 Muslim Scholars Association had launched an initiative to ensure the return of the kidnapped soldiers and served as a mediator between the gunmen and the Lebanese authorities.

Later on, the Association declared that it will suspend all activities to make way for other sides to deploy efforts in this regard.

The gunmen had issued a list of demands, which include the release of several Islamist inmates from the infamous Roumieh prison. A demand the interior minister had rejected.

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.


For more details, watch Raneem Bou Khzam's report in the VIDEO above

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