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Syrian army soldiers stand on their vehicle as they reinforce the village of Arida near Talkalakh opposite the Lebanon-Syria border, in Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon, May 19, 2011
Syrian troops and tanks have fired on a town near the Lebanese border where residents have defied the government as part of a two-month old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Four people reported killed on Syrian border and four reported killed on Lebanon border as thousands of protesters trying to breach the frontiers; dozens of Palestinian refugees enter Israel from Syria.
WADI KHALED, LEBANON — Walking over a small bridge — or trudging through the shallow, narrow stream it crosses — about 1,000 refugees fled the violence in the Syrian border town of Tal Kalakh last week to Lebanon, according to local residents.
Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s acting foreign minister, arrives in Damascus on Sunday for talks with Syrian officials Photo: REUTERS
Iran and Syria moved on Sunday to seize back influence in Lebanon with talks in Damascus over the political crisis.
BEIRUT — Syria’s fresh interference in Lebanon and its increasingly sophisticated weapons shipments to Hezbollah have alarmed American officials and prompted Israel’s military to consider a strike against a Syrian weapons depot that supplies the Lebanese militia group, U.S. and Israeli officials say.
Israel has known for years that it has a de facto border with Iran, notwithstanding that the Islamic Republic lies 1,000 miles to the east.
The de facto border is to the north – Lebanon. The President of Iran is heading there this week. He will be close enough to see Israeli houses and border guards.
Hizbullah and Iran now have a common interest in escalating tensions in the Middle East: Hizbullah, with the help of Iran, may be planning to stage a coup in Lebanon to cover up and divert attention from its role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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