Syrian Gunmen Kill Arsal Resident in Drive-by Shooting
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Two Syrian gunmen killed a man Wednesday outside his home in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.
“Young man Ali Ezzeddine, aka Ali Badriyeh, was killed outside his house in the town of Arsal,” state-run National News Agency reported.
“He was shot dead at the hands of two Syrian young men riding a white Kia vehicle,” the agency said.
Later on Wednesday, LBCI television said members of Ezzeddine's family killed senior Islamic State official Abu Omar al-Tartousi in retaliation.
Tartousi's body was transferred to the al-Rahma Hospital in Arsal, LBCI added.
Such incidents have become frequent in Arsal in recent years.
The border town hosts thousands of refugees who fled the conflict in neighboring Syria.
Militants from the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syria branch, and the Islamic State are entrenched in the town's outskirts. In August 2014, they stormed the town and engaged in bloody battles with the Lebanese army.
The situation is still volatile in the town's outskirts amid near-daily clashes between the army and the militants.
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M.T.
18 March 2015, 18:16
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Chou ya hujairi? Ready to let the army do the necessary clean-up?
18 March 2015, 18:48
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nevermind him southern, he's just copy-pasting my lines as part of my very own "best-of" series ;)
18 March 2015, 19:31
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Southern:
aren't you ashamed of yourself wasting people's time, zero contribution, naive.
19 March 2015, 12:27
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Anyone Lebanese citizen who portrays the flag or the symbol of another country does not belong to Lebanon. Spraying the flag of the Syrian opposition inside our land is a blatant insult to us all. I have yet to see one Lebanese flag on Syrian soil, or on another country either. Just goes to show how some Lebanese have accepted to become so cheap, very cheap indeed.
