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#ISIS poses serious threat to #Lebanon
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An image made available by Jihadist media outlet al-Itisam Media on June 29, 2014, allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) including military leader and Georgian native, Abu Omar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) (C-L) and ISIL sheikh Abu Mohammed al-Adnani (C-R), whose picture was blurred from the source to protect his identity, speaking at an unknown location between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah. (Photo: AFP-al-Itisam Media) An image made available by Jihadist media outlet al-Itisam Media on June 29, 2014, allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) including military leader and Georgian native, Abu Omar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) (C-L) and ISIL sheikh Abu Mohammed al-Adnani (C-R), whose (...)

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#Yabrud : no one’s graveyard
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Syrian soldiers in Yabrud after the battle. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) Syrian soldiers in Yabrud after the battle. (Photo: Haitham Moussawi)

Syrian opposition fighters failed to carry out any of the threats they made in the months prior to the battle for Yabrud. They fled as the battle neared, leaving behind empty slogans scribbled on the walls. The city is now waiting to come back to life with the return of the residents who fled before the siege. But how was life in the city without its people? What do military leaders and the civilians who stayed behind have to recount?

Racha Abi Haidar

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Syrian forces capture towns west of #Yabrud
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 17, 2014, shows Syrian pro-government forces and supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hoisting their national flag in the western town of Yabrud. (Photo: AFP / SANA) A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 17, 2014, shows Syrian pro-government forces and supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hoisting their national flag in the western town of Yabrud. (Photo: AFP / SANA)

The Syrian army has taken a several hills southwest of the former rebel stronghold of Yabrud as they seek to secure territory between there and the Lebanese border, a security source said Tuesday. On Sunday, (...)

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Syrian worker killed in #Lebanon in « revenge for #Yabrud »
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A body of a Syrian worker stabbed to death was found in a building under construction just East of Beirut Tuesday morning, Lebanon’s state news agency reported. Ali Moussa Harmoush’s killers used his blood to write “in revenge for Yabrud and #syria” on the wall next to his corpse, two days after the Syrian army and Hezbollah forces captured the town of Yabrud, near Lebanon’s eastern border. The loss of the strategic city served as a major blow to Syrian rebels, who fled west towards Lebanon after their defeat. read more

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The end of the #Qalamoun mini-state
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 17, 2014, shows Syrian pro-government forces and supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hoisting their national flag in the western town of #Yabrud.(Photo: AFP-SANA/ HO) A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 17, 2014, shows Syrian pro-government forces and supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hoisting their national flag in the western town of Yabrud.(Photo: AFP-SANA/ HO)

The outcome of the war in Qalamoun has now been settled. Though not all battles there have been won, the capture of Yabrud by the Syrian army and Hezbollah on Sunday has dealt a fatal blow to the project for a (...)

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Beyond #Yabrud
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It is now settled, the war in #syria has not gone according to plan from the perspective of Western governments. They are all responsible for diverting the path of a civilian protest movement in Syria toward the track of foreign-controlled armed groups. It is not that — as Western journalists often robotically state that the civilian non-violent movement turned into a sectarian war by virtue of the repression by the regime-no one ever explains how that actually and concretely happened — armed groups were not active in Syria from the very beginning; they were. #Saudi_Arabia, #Qatar, Turkey, Israel, and the #US had their own armed agents in Syria and they were all ready to strike at a moment’s notice.

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Syrian army prepares offensive against #Qalamoun mountains
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Syrian government forces rest on a street in the Syrian town of #Yabrud on March 16, 2014 after they seized full control of the rebel bastion in the strategic Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border. (Photo: AFP - Joseph Eid) Syrian government forces rest on a street in the Syrian town of Yabrud on March 16, 2014 after they seized full control of the rebel bastion in the strategic Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border. (Photo: AFP - Joseph Eid)

Syrian army forces were Monday readying an assault on the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun mountains, located on the Lebanese border, after overrunning key opposition bastion Yabrud. The capture on Sunday of Yabrud by Syrian troops and fighters of #Lebanon's Hezbollah (...)

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#Lebanon: Geagea ready for serious dialogue with #Hezbollah
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Head of the Lebanese Forces, #Samir_Geagea. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Head of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

Head of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, expressed in an interview with Al-Akhbar his willingness to engage in a serious dialogue with Hezbollah as long as it is not a waste of time. His new position comes after his possible bid to run in the presidential elections, which he calls the “mother of all battles.”

Hiyam Kossayfi

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Syrian forces in “full control” of #Yabrud
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A handout picture released on March 15, 2014, by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reportedly shows the city of Yabrud after the Syrian army advanced in the key rebel bastion. (Photo: AFP / SANA / HO) A handout picture released on March 15, 2014, by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reportedly shows the city of Yabrud after the Syrian army advanced in the key rebel bastion. (Photo: AFP / SANA / HO)

Syrian troops on Sunday seized full control of the rebel bastion Yabrud in the strategic Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border, Syrian state media reported. "Our brave armed forces have full control over Yabrud in Damascus province and are combing through the town and removing explosive devices placed by (...)

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Syrian forces surround rebel-held #Yabrud
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Syrian forces backed by fighters from Lebanon’s powerful #Hezbollah movement were at the gates of the rebel bastion of Yabrud near the Lebanese border Friday, opposition sources said. State television confirmed the news, reporting: “Syrian army units have advanced in the Yabrud area and now control its eastern approaches and northeastern boundary.” read more

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Syrian army readies ground assault on Yabroud: report
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A Syrian man runs for cover as smoke rises from buildings nearby following a reported bombing attack by government forces on the Hanano district of the northern city of Aleppo on February 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP/AMC - Khaled Khatib) A Syrian man runs for cover as smoke rises from buildings nearby following a reported bombing attack by government forces on the Hanano district of the northern city of Aleppo on February 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP/AMC - Khaled Khatib)

Syria’s army is preparing to assault a key rebel bastion near Damascus, a pro-regime newspaper said Thursday, as activists reported heavy shelling and fighting there. “The Syrian army is preparing to launch a new phase” on the town of Yabroud near the border with (...)

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Al-Akhbar in #Qalamoun: Our War Has No Red Lines
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Raad Hammadi hails from the village of Abu Houri in the #Qusayr countryside and is stationed in the mountains adjacent to the Lebanese border. (Photo: Radwan Mortada) Raad Hammadi hails from the village of Abu Houri in the Qusayr countryside and is stationed in the mountains adjacent to the Lebanese border. (Photo: Radwan Mortada)

The journey through the Qalamoun Mountains is long and arduous. In the second part of Al-Akhbar’s (...)

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