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Syrian refugees who fled the violence from the Syrian town of Flita, near Yabroud, are pictured at the border town of Arsal, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, on March 20, 2014. (Reuters/Hassan Abdallah)


Counting the Cost in Arsal

Counting the Cost in Arsal

Arsal, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian town of Yabroud, located on the slopes of the Qalamoun mountains, was in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. The town finally fell to a joint Syrian Army–Hezbollah offensive earlier this month, part of a campaign by the...
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A Lebanese army soldier stands in front of a damaged car at the site of a car bomb that exploded Sunday evening, in the town of Nabi Othman, in northeast Lebanon, on March 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)


Assad capture of Yabroud fuels Lebanese tensions

Assad capture of Yabroud fuels Lebanese tensions

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sectarian tensions have been reignited in Lebanon after the Syrian government announced the capture of the strategic border town of Yabroud on Sunday, a critical blow to the predominantly Sunni Syrian rebels seeking to topple the Assad...
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A handout photograph released by Syria’s national news agency SANA on March 15, 2014, shows a view of a part of the town of Yabroud in Syria, which lies north of Damascus near the Lebanese border. (Reuters/SANA/Handout via Reuters)


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Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are seen in the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus. Syria’s army ambushed Islamist fighters in the Qalamoun mountains north of the capital Damascus on Friday, leaving as many as 60 people dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said (REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters)


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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a group of nuns who were freed after being held by rebels, greet church officials at the Syrian border town of Judaydat Yabus, early Monday, on March 10, 2014. (AP Photo/SANA)


Syria: Kidnapped nuns released

Syria: Kidnapped nuns released

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thirteen Lebanese and Syrian nuns seized by Syrian rebels three months ago were released on Sunday after intense international mediation efforts involving Lebanese, Qatari, Turkish and Syrian officials. The nuns were released in exchange for...