Lebanese Army Says Report Claiming 2 Recruits Joined FSA 'Exaggerated'
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Two Lebanese army recruits have escaped the military service and joined the ranks of the rebel Free Syrian Army to fight President Bashar Assad’s regime, As Safir newspaper reported on Wednesday. An informed source told the daily that the military service of the two recruits, who hail from the Wadi Khaled border region of Akkar, was extended but after they were granted their leave of absence “they left and never came back.” [Naharnet]