(Reuters)- At least four people were killed and seven wounded in overnight air
raids by Syrian forces on mountains and valleys near the Lebanese town
of Arsal, security sources said on Friday, the latest spillover of
violence into the border area.
The five air raids struck close
to Arsal, an area sympathetic to the mostly Sunni Muslim rebels fighting
to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is from Syria's Alawite
minority.
Violence has regularly hit areas around Arsal. In
January rocket fire from Syria killed at least seven people in the town
and wounded 15.
Lebanon, which was pulled apart by its own
civil war from 1975 to 1990, has been struggling to keep itself out of
the three-year conflict in its much larger neighbor, which has stoked
sectarian tensions across the region.
In Lebanon, groups have
split along sectarian lines over the Syrian crisis and the country has
faced increased car bombings in recent weeks, some hitting the capital
Beirut.
Syrian air raid kills four near Lebanese border town

Zaman Alwasl
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