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Lebanese premier pleads for calm as anger grows over militant beheadings of captured soldiers

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    This Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, the mother of a missing Lebanese soldier who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants, shouts slogans against the Lebanese cabinet during a demonstration to demand action to secure the captives' release, in front the Lebanese government building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The mother of Lebanese soldier Abbas Medlej, held captive by the militant Islamic State group says that photographs posted online purporting to show his beheading appear real, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Militants, including from the Islamic State extremist group, seized around 30 soldiers and policemen after overrunning a Lebanese border town in early August. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) (The Associated Press)

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    This Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, a family of a missing Lebanese soldier who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants, sits on the ground as they block a street during a demonstration to demand action to secure the captives' release, in front the Lebanese government building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The mother of Lebanese soldier Abbas Medlej, held captive by the militant Islamic State group says that photographs posted online purporting to show his beheading appear real, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Militants, including from the Islamic State extremist group, seized around 30 soldiers and policemen after overrunning a Lebanese border town in early August. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) (The Associated Press)

BEIRUT – Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam is pleading for calm as anger swells in his country over the continued capture of soldiers and police by militants in Syria.

In a rare televised address on Lebanese television stations on Sunday, Salam urged his countrymen to trust the government's efforts to negotiate the men's release. It came after photos emerged showing that militants of the Islamic State group had beheaded a second captive soldier on Saturday.

Militants in Syria, including the Islamic State group, are holding around 20 soldiers and police. They were seized after militants briefly overran the Lebanese border town of Arsal in August.

Families of the captive men have blocked Lebanon's highways, burning tires and sending gunmen to the streets. Others have vowed to punish Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

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