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                    [Title] => Calm prevails northern Lebanese city after clashes
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The Lebanese army on yesterday asked Islamic militants in this northern city and nearby areas to surrender as calm returned after four days of clashes that killed more than 20 people.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-28 04:41:49 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1170018 [AuthorName] => Bilal Hussein [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1384984 [Title] => Lebanese troops fight street battles in Tripoli [Summary] =>

Lebanese army tanks pounded Muslim militants' positions in the narrow streets of a poor neighborhood in this northern city yesterday, where fighting has intensified and spread to nearby areas where gunmen killed four soldiers.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-27 03:29:54 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1170019 [AuthorName] => Bilal Hussein and Bassem Mroue [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1361258 [Title] => Feature: Tension rises between Syrian displaced camps, Lebanese surroundings [Summary] =>

Many Syrian refugee camps and groupings in Lebanon have been targeted by the Lebanese army security raids and heavy measures since fierce clashes erupted in the border town of Arsal in the eastern Bekaa region in early August.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-24 13:00:56 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1354879 [Title] => Some Syrian militants pull out of Lebanese town [Summary] =>

Some Syrian militant fighters have begun withdrawing from the Lebanese town they captured five days earlier as a new 24-hour cease-fire was announced yesterday, according to the Lebanese army and the Muslims clerics that mediated the deal.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-07 06:08:56 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267260 [AuthorName] => Diaa Hadid [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1354492 [Title] => Gunmen wound Lebanese religious mediators [Summary] =>

Gunmen attacked a delegation of clerics sent to mediate between the Lebanese army and a band of Syrian militants that took over a Lebanese town, wounding a prominent Sunni sheik who then left yesterday, one of his associates said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-06 06:03:56 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1353417 [Title] => Tribesmen force jihadis out of Syrian villages [Summary] =>

Tribesmen have risen up against the extremist Islamic State group in eastern Syria, forcing it to withdraw from three villages after heavy clashes that killed more than a dozen people, activists said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-03 05:14:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1163274 [AuthorName] => Bassem Mroue [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1302283 [Title] => Lebanon sends army to Syria border as rebels flee [Summary] =>

The Lebanese army sent commandos to the tense border area with Syria on yesterday, bracing for another spillover of the conflict next door as Syrian rebels continued to flee into Lebanon after the fall of their stronghold to President Bashar Assad's forces.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-18 03:43:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1357085 [AuthorName] => Hussein Malla and Barbara Surk [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1301891 [Title] => Syria: Government forces seize key rebel town [Summary] =>

Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters seized a key rebel supply town on the Lebanese border on yesterday, driving them from the area and scoring a major blow against them in the three-year-old-conflict.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-17 05:07:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115217 [AuthorName] => Alert Aji and Diaa Hadid [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268750 [Title] => Syrian refugees in Lebanon face bitter winter [Summary] =>

Shivering in the snow, Syrian Aisha Mohammad looked at the last-minute charity that saved her children from freezing during the smack of a particularly tough Lebanese winter: a wood-burning stove complete with twigs and garbage to ignite in hopes of warming her drafty tent in an icy eastern plain.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-16 06:08:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267260 [AuthorName] => Diaa Hadid [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1258114 [Title] => Thousands of Syrian refugees flood into Lebanon [Summary] =>

Thousands of refugees are fleeing border towns in central Syria where a high-stakes battle is raging, crossing desolate hills to reach safety in neighboring Lebanon, witnesses and the UN said on yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-18 04:41:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267260 [AuthorName] => Diaa Hadid [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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