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2 August 2014

✸The Arsal events

AttackerArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)➜TargetLebanese Army

The abduction of the 22 soldiers and the slaughter of other Lebanese army soldiers, whose bodies were dragged through the streets of Arsal to the municipality building in the presence of the mayor and the sheikhs of the area.

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