Saudi Arabia grants Leba**n's army $1 bln in aid

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Saudi Arabia has granted $1 billion in aid to Lebanese armed forces, state news agency SPA said, as they battle Islamist militants who seized a border town in the worst spillover yet from Syria's three-year-old civil war. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has close links to the Saudi royal family, an**unced the aid after visiting King Abdullah on Tuesday evening, SPA said. The aid would help Lebanese armed forces "maintain the security and stability of Saudi Arabia's sister country, Leba**n," Hariri was quoted by the Saudi agency as saying. Leba**n, which is still trying to rebuild after its own 1975-1990 civil war, has been buffeted by violence linked to the Syrian conflict, including rocket attacks, suicide bombings and gun battles.

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