Syria spill-over threatens to engulf Lebanon

Damascus : Syria | Oct 25, 2012 at 2:39 AM PDT

Source: New Statesman

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Wedged between Israel to its South and Syria to its East, its peoplehave long found themselves at the mercy of the region's internal dynamics. Surprisingly, it has so far managed to evade the rising wave of civil unrest that has consumed the Middle East. FULL ARTICLE AT New Statesman

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