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Lebanese army advances to secure border

The Lebanese army has received a substantial arms shipment from the United States, allowing it to advance against terrorist groups in the mountainous border regions.
Lebanese military soldiers man a checkpoint, near the site of an ambush where gunmen killed at least six Lebanese soldiers, in the mountainous border town of Ras Baalbek December 3, 2014. Gunmen killed at least six Lebanese soldiers when they attacked an army patrol near the border with Syria on Tuesday, the army and a Lebanese security source said. The source said the gunmen crossed from Syria to the mountainous border town of Ras Baalbek after dark and ambushed the patrol. Clashes between gunmen and a spe
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A Lebanese military source told Al-Monitor that this past week's unusually harsh climatic conditions in the country's mountainous areas acted to the advantage of the Lebanese army in the face of terrorist militants.

For many months, the prevailing impression has been that the terrorist groups deployed on Lebanon’s mountainous eastern border with Syria have been awaiting relief from the cold weather and snow, to intensify their operations against the Lebanese army and Hezbollah’s fighters.

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