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| Soldiers killed by Lebanon car bomb | Soldiers killed by Lebanon car bomb |
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| A car bomb has exploded near a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border, killing three soldiers, reports say. | |
| Several more soldiers were reported wounded in the blast, believed to be a suicide attack, on the outskirts of the town of Arsal. | |
| Tensions have been high in the area since the Syrian army captured the strategic town of Yabroud a few miles over the border a fortnight ago. | Tensions have been high in the area since the Syrian army captured the strategic town of Yabroud a few miles over the border a fortnight ago. |
| Syrian forces are now threatening rebel supply routes from eastern Lebanon. | Syrian forces are now threatening rebel supply routes from eastern Lebanon. |
| Lebanon's state news agency reported hours earlier that the Syrian army had seized two border villages from the rebels. | Lebanon's state news agency reported hours earlier that the Syrian army had seized two border villages from the rebels. |
| Unconfirmed reports suggested a Sunni Muslim militant group was behind the Arsal bombing. | |
| Some Sunni groups have accused Lebanese soldiers of being close to the Shia militant group Hezbollah, which has been heavily involved in the fighting against the rebels in western Syria. | |
| President Bashar al-Assad's government launched an offensive in November 2013 to push rebel fighters out of the mountainous border area. | |
| During the bombardment of Yabroud, much of the town's population of 40,000 fled into Lebanon. | |
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