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Lebanon army fights extremists on Syria border

(22 Jun 2016) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Arsal, Lebanon - 19 June 2016 1. Close of officer looking through binoculars 2. Officer looking through binoculars from army outpost overlooking mountain chain on Syrian border 3. Artillery in position 4. Pan right of Arsal city 5. Soldier behind sandbags overlooking Arsal city 6. Pull focus from rifle to houses and truck 7. Close of Arsal city on model map 8. Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Hassan showing positions on a model map of Arsal. UPSOUND (Arabic) Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Hassan: ""South of the Zamarani crossing is Al Nusra and east and north of Zamarani crossing are Daesh (Arabic acronym for Islamic State) units." 9. Close of flags pinned on the model map indicating army units' positions 10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Hassan, Commander of 8th Infantry Brigade: "(Referring to the August 2014 attack) It was a turning point and it marked the decision by the Lebanese army command to put a limit to those criminal terrorists and to repel them and prevent any effects they might have on mainland Lebanon." 11. Close of soldier looking through howitzer's optical system 12. Soldier maneuvering howitzer 13. Soldiers manning artillery position 14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Hassan, Commander of 8th Infantry Brigade: "Repelling the terrorists is an everyday activity based on three principles in the work against terrorists: readiness to give sacrifices, will to fight, and strike with full force anytime any place. Any movement they make in the field we have the capabilities of monitoring it and deal with it with the appropriate weapon." 15. Soldier standing overlooking valley 16. Tanks behind trenches 17. Soldier manning tank's machine gun 18. Tank behind trenches STORYLINE Keeping an eye on every movement below, Lebanese Army soldiers on the Syrian border remain on high alert, as they have done every day over the last two years. Their artillery stands ready to pound fighters from strategically high positions overlooking the no man's land and the Anti-Lebanon mountain range that mark the Syrian border. Lebanese troops have been fighting the Islamic State (IS) group and al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front fighters in this mountainous part of the Bekaa valley after the Syrian civil war spilled over into Lebanon and the town of Arsal was occupied by Syrian opposition fighters in August 2014. After five days of fighting, the Lebanese military pushed the militants out of Arsal into the surrounding mountains. Seventeen kilometres (10.5 miles) now separates the most advanced army outposts and the Syrian border. According to the army, the militants still control about 50 square kilometres (19 square miles) of territory. They used to be in control of an area 20 times larger, according to Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Hassan, the commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade. The brigade deployed 5,000 men in December 2015 to defend the eastern border and prevent any extremists and armed contacts between different sectarian groups. Al-Hassan says about 900 IS group fighters and 400 Al Nusra Front fighters remain in the area The Lebanese army is generally seen as a unifying force in the country, and foreign powers have been providing support and training, particularly the United States and Britain. American-made drones and radars installed by the British gather intel on fighters' whereabouts. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...