Topic - Arsal

north east of Beirut, in the Baalbek District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The population is predominantly Sunni Muslim. - Source: Wikipedia

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This Sunday, June 16, 2019 photo, shows a Syrian refugee riding a motorcycle among tents at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon. Authorities in Lebanon are waging their most aggressive campaign yet against Syrian refugees, making heated calls for them to go back to their country and taking action to ensure they can’t put down roots. They are shutting down shops where Syrians work without permits and ordering the demolition of anything in their squalid camps that could be a permanent home. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE -- In this June 19, 2016 file photo, a Lebanese army soldier takes his position overlooking an area controlled by the Islamic State group at the edge of the town of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon. Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of IS militants from a remote corner of northeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, seeking to end a years-long threat posed to neighboring towns and villages by the extremists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Sunday June 19, 2016 photo, a Lebanese army soldier stand guards at one of the frontline hills where they are fighting militants, at the edge of the town of Arsal, on the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. The Lebanese army is fighting a war against the Islamic State and al-Qaida and has clawed significant territory back from the extremists. The fighting and shelling near the eastern border town of Arsal occur almost daily. Some 5,000 Lebanese soldiers are fighting against a dwindling number of militants. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese army slowly crushing extremists near Syria border

By BASSEM MROUE and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press