15 Syrians, Including al-Nusra Members, Arrested at Arsal Checkpoint
Fifteen Syrian nationals, including members of the extremist al-Nusra Front, were arrested Wednesday in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, according to state-run National News Agency.
NNA said the men were arrested at the army's Wadi al-Shaab checkpoint in Arsal for entering Lebanon with “fake identification papers.”
The detainees will be referred to the Military Police for further investigations, according to the agency.
On Tuesday, five Syrian nationals were arrested in the Akkar town of Shadra for entering Lebanon illegally.
And on Monday, the army arrested two Lebanese and 19 Syrians in Wadi Khaled for entering Lebanon with a Kalashnikov rifle, two guns, ammunition, 30 mobile phones, a laptop and various foreign currencies in their possession.
Since the eruption of the uprising in Syria in March 2011, security forces and the army have arrested a number of gunmen and individuals who sought to enter Lebanon illegally.
The un-demarcated Lebanese-Syrian border has facilitated the flow of gunmen to and from Syria.
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