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Hamas
Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas
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Lebanon
Lebanon calls for support for army to counter Syria fallout
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Lebanon
During a clash in Beirut between Salafists and Hezbollah-linked supporters of the Assad regime in Syria, one person was killed and 15 were wounded. Fugitive Salafist preacher Ahmad al-Assir released a video accusing two Lebanese political blocs of seeking to kill him and suggested that Sunnis defect from the Lebanese army. A Maronite bishop escaped a kidnapping attempt in Zahle.
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Lebanon
Fears linger despite lull in n. Lebanon fighting
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Al Nusrah Front
Yabroud town – a strategic prize for Syria government
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Lebanon
Syria’s Lebanese Ghost Prisoners
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Lebanon
Some 300 Islamist fighters from the Jund al Sham are thought to have fled to Lebanon after Syrian forces captured the Krak des Chevaliers in Homs. As many as 1,000 Lebanese Jund al Sham fighters and their families are said to have survived an ambush near the Bqaiaa crossing in the Wadi Khaled area. Among those killed at the Krak des Chevaliers battle was Jund al-Sham emir Khaled Mahmoud al-Dandashi, a Lebanese national and former Fatah al Islam fighter. In Tripoli, 25 people have been killed and 175 wounded in nine days of clashes between supporters and opponents of the…
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Al Nusrah Front
Fears as Islamist fighters flock to Lebanon
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Lebanon
After the Syrian army’s capture of the Krak des Chevaliers in Homs, a number of rebels have fled into Lebanon, including at least 45 wounded who reached Wadi Khaled and were taken by the Lebanese Red Cross to hospitals in Akkar. Security sources said many of the fleeing fighters were from the Al Nusrah Front. Four Syrian airstrikes targeting fleeing rebels hit Arsal, wounding a child. The new coalition government won a vote of confidence.
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Hezbollah
Syria Documents: Nasrallah sent message to reassure Israel
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Three Years of Revolt: What Has Become of Syria’s Revolutionaries
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Hezbollah
Lebanese factions seek unity against terrorism threat
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Lebanon
Sniper fire in an Alawite neighborhood in Tripoli killed one person and injured six others, including a child. Sniper fire also caused the closure of a highway between Tripoli and Akkar. Gunmen fired RPGs at an army post in Qibbeh, injuring several soldiers. Two rockets landed in Hermel. The Army deployed to the Sunni town of Arsal to defuse tensions, and arrested 15 people there and unblocked the main road into town.
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Al Qaeda builds networks in Lebanon as security slips
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Lebanon
One person was killed during protests against the Shiite town of Labweh’s blocking of the main road into the Sunni town of Arsal to shut off Syrian rebel activity. A Syrian worker in Beirut was stabbed to death purportedly “in revenge for Yabroud.” Two soldiers and a civilian were wounded in a firefight in Tripoli between gunmen and military forces.
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Lebanon
The army arrested 21 gunmen, 19 of whom were Syrians, as they tried to enter the country from Syria near Wadi Khaled. Security at the border has been heightened as many Syrian opposition fighters fleeing Yabroud have sought refuge in Lebanon. Four rockets fired from Syria landed in the towns of Nabi Othman and Labweh, injuring one person. The army detonated a rigged car in the Bekaa valley. Among those killed in yesterday’s suicide bombing in the Bekaa valley was local Hezbollah leader Abdul Rahman al-Qadhi. The Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon claimed the attack as retaliation for Hezbollah’s role…
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Lebanon
A suicide car bomb killed two Hezbollah members and two other people in the Bekaa valley; the attack was claimed by the Al Nusrah Front and The Brigade of Free Sunnis in Baalbek. Syrian military airstrikes targeting rebel fighters in Arsal killed two fighters and wounded 11. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham claimed the March 15 rocket attack on Labweh. Islamic Jihad has urged Hezbollah, the Amal movement, and Palestinian Islamist factions in Lebanon to develop a memorandum of understanding to help resolve tensions; the agreement is expected to be signed also by Hamas, Osbat al-Ansar, and…
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Al Nusrah Front
Syria conflict has third anniversary amid offensive
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Lebanon
In Tripoli, 10 people have been killed and 50 wounded in clashes between supporters and opponents of the Assad regime. The army seized bombs and ammunition from a car at a checkpoint in the northern town of Shadra. Rockets fired from Syria hit the towns of Nabi Uthman and Labweh in Hezbollah-dominated areas of east Lebanon, killing one person and injuring three others; three men from Arsal were briefly abducted in retaliation for the attacks.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syrian forces enter last rebel bastion near Lebanese border
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Lebanon
The Israeli army hit a Hezbollah position on the Lebanese border, in retaliation for a bomb attack targeting Israeli soldiers inside occupied territory at the border. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham claimed the attack, however, saying it was against the “Zionist army unit,” in its first claim for attacks against Israel. Hezbollah denied any association with Jamal Daftardar, a terrorist suspect linked to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades and the Al Nusrah Front. Two men were arrested for smuggling Syrians into Lebanon. Clashes continued in Tripoli between supporters and opponents of the Assad regime in Syria; five people…
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Lebanon
The army claimed that tightened security measures in recent weeks have resulted in a reduction in car bombings. During clashes in Tripoli between supporters and opponents of the Assad regime in Syria, two people were killed and 18 others were injured. The father of a recently kidnapped 10-year-old boy urged authorities to arrest the suspects, who are part of a Bekaa gang that is linked to Hezbollah. The Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon claimed rocket attacks in al-Nabi Shayth in the Bekaa valley on March 11 and March 13.
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Lebanon
A Pentagon official expressed concern over the rising risk of terrorist attacks on Lebanese state and military targets. The army searched a Syrian refugee camp in Al-Marj in the Bekaa valley for explosives, weapons, and wanted Syrian fugitives. Foreign Minister Bassil asked for Turkey’s help in locating two Syrian bishops kidnapped in April and Samir Kassab, a Lebanese journalist who disappeared in Syria in October.
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Lebanon
Five rockets launched from Syria landed in the Nabi Shayt area of the Bekaa valley, injuring four people. Interior Minister al Mashnouq said that Lebanon understands Saudi Arabia’s purpose in designating the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and the Al Nusrah Front as terrorist groups.
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Hezbollah
Israel Watches Warily as Hezbollah Gains Battle Skills in Syria
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
War of narratives in prisoner exchange of Syrian nuns
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Lebanon
The Army is preparing to fend off further terrorist attacks by the Al Nusrah Front and other jihadist groups, in the wake of recent threats and a European terror assessment warning that diplomatic, military, and governmental sites may be targeted. A judge issued arrest warrants for 12 suspected terrorists from the Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the Ziad Jarrah Brigades. Gunmen killed senior Fatah official Brig. Gen. Jamil Zeidan in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. Sheikh Omar al-Atrash confessed to moving weapons from Lebanon to Syria.
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Syrian nuns held by Al Nusrah Front fighters are freed
Negotiations over the release of a group of kidnapped nuns were complicated by factors including the alleged involvement of Free Syrian Army fighters in the kidnapping.
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Lebanon
The Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon claimed that Shiite members of the Lebanese Army are fighting in Syria alongside regime forces. The head of General Security said negotiations have resulted in a deal to free 13 Syrian nuns kidnapped last year by rebels. The nuns will be handed over in Arsal and then taken to Damascus. The negotiations, in which Qatar participated, linked the nuns’ release to the freeing of some 153 detainees from regime prisons.
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Lebanon
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades said the killing of civilians in its Feb. 19 suicide attack at the Iranian Cultural Center in Beirut was due to an error. The group also said that its Marwan Hadid Brigades carried out a rocket attack jointly with the Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon in the Hermel area; it is the third joint attack claimed by the two groups. Gunmen in Sidon fired at security forces who were trying to arrest wanted members of the Hezbollah Resistance Brigades. Two rockets landed near a Hermel hospital and three hit in al-Qaa village. Shells from Syria landed…
