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Three Lebanese troopers are captured by gunmen close to the border with Asian country, sources told Al Jazeera, days when the Syrian branch of foreign terrorist organization, the Nusra Front, dead a Lebanese law officer it absolutely was holding captive.
The 3 troopers were reportedly taken on weekday morning within the city of Brital within the Bekaa vale, that borders Asian country, when the gunmen infiltrated a military position.
Violence has flaring within the encompassing areas, wherever the Lebanese army has additionally battled Syria-based fighters, together with the Nusra Front and also the Islamic State of Iraq and also the Levant (ISIL).
In August, fighters from the Nusra Front and ISIL stormed Arsal within the worst effect of violence up to now, killing a minimum of seventeen troopers and captured quite twenty troopers and policemen in an exceedingly temporary cross-border raid.
On Friday, the Nusra Front killed peace officer Ali al-Bazzal and aforementioned it did therefore in response to the arrest of relations of its commanders.
Bazzal was the fourth surety to be killed by his captors, 2 different hostages had been headless.
The plight of the remaining security officers has gripped Lebanese Republic within the past weeks Relatives of the detained ar staging associate degree current civil disobedience and block roads in capital of Lebanon, et al in Lebanese Republic, to pressure the govt to barter with the fighters.
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