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Lebanese army: 8 soldiers killed in clashes with Syrian rebels

Associated Press
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    Smoke billows from Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Saturday, Aug 2, 2014. Rebels fighting in Syria’s civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor’s 3-year-old conflict. (AP Photo) (The Associated Press)

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    Gunmen drive away with about a dozen men, two in camouflage police uniforms, in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Saturday, Aug 2, 2014. Rebels fighting in Syria’s civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor’s 3-year-old conflict. (AP Photo) (The Associated Press)

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    Smoke billows from the Lebanese town of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Saturday, Aug 2, 2014. Rebels fighting in Syria’s civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor’s 3-year-old conflict. (AP Photo) (The Associated Press)

BEIRUT – Lebanon's army says eight soldiers have been killed in clashes with Syrian rebels in and around an eastern Lebanese border town.

The military's statement on Sunday updated an earlier toll from fighting that began the day before and was still ongoing, and which marked one of the most serious spillovers of the three-year-old Syrian conflict into the tiny neighboring country.

The clashes in and around Arsal began when fighters raided the border town after a militant from Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front was detained while being transferred to a Lebanese hospital.

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees live in and around Arsal and fighters sometimes use the town as a base. But this weekend's fighting is the most serious yet.