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Syria Delivers Airstrikes on Lebanon Border Area - Report

12 April 2013 04:41 (UTC +04:00)

The daily said quoting Arsal’s Deputy Mayor Ahmad al-Fliti that two rockets targeted Seeraj al-Ajram, located some four kilometers (2.5 miles) to the northeast of Arsal, and that all wounded were Syrians.

Last month Al-Jazeera reported that the Syrian authorities launched several airstrikes on the border areas in Lebanon. The Syrian Foreign Ministry later denied air assaults on rebel positions in Lebanon, despite having earlier warned it might do so unless Beirut reinforced its border.

Damascus said earlier that several groups of terrorists entered Syria from Lebanon in early March, forcing the army to fight them back in several villages near the border.

Syria’s SANA state news agency claimed in March that the US military has performed raids into Syria from Lebanon and Jordan for reconnaissance purposes and was preparing terrorist operations in support of Syrian rebels.

More than 70,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of hostilities in Syria, according to the latest United Nations estimate.