(Adds details, background of last week's incursion) BEIRUT, Aug 9 (Reuters) - fighters identified as Islamist militants crossed into Leba**n from Syria on Saturday, triggering an exchange of fire with Lebanese villagers who forced them back across the border, Lebanese security sources and a villager said. Kfar Qouq is near the Bekaa Valley town of Rashaya and some 100 km (60 miles) south of the border town of Arsal that was seized last Saturday by Islamist militants who crossed from Syria. Dozens of people were killed in five days of fighting between the army and the militants who included Islamists affiliated to the Islamic State, which has seized territory in Syria and Iraq.
08-13-2014, 05:20 PM
Lebanese villagers repel fighters who crossed from Syria -Lebanese sources
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