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Lebanese army seize strategic border sites from militants

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Lebanese armed forces managed on Friday to take over a number of "strategic sites" in the eastern parts of the border town of Arsal from the hands of fundamentalist militants.

In a statement, the military said the armed forces carried out earlier Friday a swift military operation and managed as a result to achieve complete control over some of the sites that were used by terrorist organizations to infiltrate and attack army posts.

Operatives with Al-Qaida linked al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State militant group are entrenched on the outskirts of the border lines between Syria and Lebanon and particularly in Arsal.

Last August, they overran Arsalo and engaged in five-day clashes with the army and abducted at least 35 soldiers and policemen before fleeing. Endit