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Fighting erupts along Lebanon-Syria border

2025.03.17, 15:29
Fighting erupts along Lebanon-Syria border

Fighting erupted overnight into Monday along the border with Lebanon, Syria’s state media said.

Gunaz.tv

This was reported by the “Associated Press”.

This came after the Syrian interim government accused militants from Lebanon’s Hezbollah of crossing into Syria on Saturday, kidnapping three soldiers and killing them on Lebanese soil.

Syrian News Channel, citing an unnamed Defense Ministry official, said the Syrian army shelled “Hezbollah gatherings that killed Syrian soldiers” along the border. Hezbollah denied any involvement in a statement on Sunday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said five other Syrian soldiers were killed during Monday’s clashes. Footage broadly circulated online and on local media showed families fleeing the shelling toward the Syrian village of Hermel.

Violence has recently spiked in the area between the Syrian military and armed Lebanese Shiite clans closely allied with the government of ousted Bashar Assad, based in Lebanon’s Al-Qasr border village.

Lebanese media and the observatory say clans were involved in the kidnapping that sparked the latest clashes, which largely calmed before sunrise.

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