Conflicting reports emerged Tuesday on clashes between Syrian regime forces and rebel troops along the Lebanese-Syrian border in the northern Bekaa Valley.
******* quoted residents as saying that Syrian troops entered northern Lebanon, clashed with Syrian rebels and destroyed a farm building.
"More than 35 Syrian soldiers came across the border and started to destroy houses," a resident in the Bekaa village of Al-Qaa told *******.
“Another resident said that the soldiers, some traveling in armored personnel vehicles, fired rocket-propelled grenades and exchanged heavy machinegun fire with rebels,” ******* reported.
Meanwhile, a resident of the area told NOW Lebanon that the Syrian army entered Lebanese territory with “the help of the Lebanese army.”
He added that “the Lebanese army arrested many Lebanese nationals [pursuant to the] orders of the Syrian army.”
“We don’t know whom to run from, the Lebanese or the Syrian army.”
“We are at war, we are sitting in the [farm] fields now. I heard that [the Syrians] were going to [move in farther] in a while, around three kilometers into Lebanese land.”
However, AFP quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying that clashes took place on the Syrian side of the border between government troops and rebel soldiers, not in Lebanon.
Also, the National News Agency denied that Syrian forces crossed into Masharee al-Qaa.
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