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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.
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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U.S. says nothing it does is condition-free and that it places similar conditions on Israel in terms of assistance it provides.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon said Saturday it was committed to building up its armed forces after complaints by Israel about Western assistance to the military following a deadly border clash between the two countries.
Israeli F-16 jets fly over Jerusalem in April 2010. Lebanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating Lebanon’s airspace on Wednesday, a military statement said. (AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)
BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating Lebanon’s airspace on Wednesday, a military statement said.
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
—Zechariah 2:8
“Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.”
—Zechariah 11:1
“The anti-aircraft batteries fired in the direction of Israeli warplanes that flew over” the Shebaa region of southern Lebanon at medium altitude, the statement said.
Earlier in the day, two aircraft flew over southern and northern Lebanon before returning to Israeli territory, it said.
While Lebanon’s army publishes almost daily reports of Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace, the military rarely opens fire unless the planes fly within range of its guns.
The overflights are a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a devastating 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah militia.
Israel argues that the overflights are necessary, despite the resolution, to monitor what it says is massive arms smuggling by Hezbollah, also in breach of the same resolution.
Last month Israeli President Shimon Peres accused Syria of providing Scud missiles to Hezbollah, which Israel alleges has stockpiled more than 40,000 rockets, some capable of reaching large towns in Israel.
Damascus has rejected the allegation but the armed Hezbollah which controls southern Lebanon has neither confirmed nor denied it.
BEIRUT (AFP) – Israel is trying to ease tension with Syria and Lebanon, the Spanish foreign minister said on Thursday, after Israeli charges that Damascus was smuggling Scud missiles to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
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