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Esperance Ghanem

Esperance Ghanem

Sep 8, 2014

Syrians, who fled the fighting in their country, arrive with their belongings at night in the Shebaa region, southern Lebanon, November 11, 2013. Picture taken November 11, 2013. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTX15A7X — Syrians, who fled the fighting in their country, arrive with their belongings at night in the Shebaa region, southern Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2013. — REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

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Lebanese Red Cross personnel move a Syrian refugee, who fled the fighting in his country, into an ambulance in the Shebaa region, March 21, 2013. Witnesses said at least 150 Syrians had fled the fighting and crossed the border into Lebanon's Shebaa region, just north of the Golan. Many of them crossed on foot or by donkey through rugged snow-capped terrain around Mount Hermon. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3FAGK

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Nasser Chararah

Nasser Chararah

A Lebanese army soldier sits atop an army vehicle at the entrance of the Sunni Muslim border town of Arsal, in eastern Bekaa Valley, as smoke rises during clashes between Lebanese army soldiers and Islamist militants August 4, 2014. The Lebanese army advanced into a border town that was attacked by Islamists in an incursion from Syria at the weekend, finding the bodies of 50 militants, a Lebanese security official said. REUTERS/Hassan Abdallah (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGE

Islamic State sets sights on sea in Lebanon

Esperance Ghanem

Esperance Ghanem

Fighters from Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra watch snipers on the front line during a fight with Syria forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad in Aleppo December 24, 2012. Syria special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi discussed solving the country's conflict with President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, but the opposition expressed deepening frustration with the mission following what it called the latest massacre of civilians. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3BVVS

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Jean Aziz (Lebanon Pulse)

Jean Aziz (Lebanon Pulse)

Lebanese Army soldiers and relatives of Druze soldier Khaldoon Raouf Hamoud carry his coffin during his funeral in Akbeh, Rashaya August 3, 2014. Lebanese soldiers traded fire with Islamist gunmen and shelled areas around the border town of Arsal on Sunday in a push to dislodge the biggest incursion by militants into Lebanon since Syria's civil war began. At least 10 Lebanese soldiers have died in the fighting, which erupted after Islamist gunmen seized a local police station on Saturday in response to the

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Mona Alami