Soldiers Died in Lebanon car bomb
Al-Huriya News Agency - A suicide car bomber has attacked a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border, killing three soldiers. Four more soldiers were reported wounded in the blast, on the outskirts of the town of Arsal.
Tension has been high since the Syrian army captured Yabroud, a strategic town just over the border, a fortnight ago. Arsal is home to thousands of Syrian refugees but also Syrian rebels and their Lebanese allies. Syrian forces now threaten key rebel supply routes from eastern Lebanon.
Fighters from Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, which backs Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, are also based in Arsal. Lebanon's state news agency reported that an extremist Sunni group, the Ahrar al-Sunna in Baalbek Brigade, said it was behind Saturday's bombing.
