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Conflict Incident Report

Clashes between Army and armed persons in Rahwe

Associated Timeline/Case: 
Arsal Conflict (starting August 2, 2014)
Date of incident: 
August 28, 2014
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
3persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL))
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)

An armed group of the ISIS and the Nusra Front intercepted on Thursday an Army patrol in Rahwe, in Arsal Mountains, which led to violent clashes between the two sides. The army shelled the terrorists' locations in the villages in Arsal outskirts. As a result of those clashes, one military personel was killed, three other wounded and one went missing. http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/32291/One-army-martyr-three-wound... http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/32277/Clashes-between-Army-armed-... http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/32280/Army-shells-locations-for-t... http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/32301/Army-Four-soldiers-rescued-...

Primary category: 
Clashes/Armed Conflict
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Border conflicts (Syrian border)
Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.