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Lebanon deploys police to Syrian border
state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the force set up "observation posts" along the northern border stretch from the seaside Arida crossing in the west to the village of Hnaider towards the east.
The posts were erected along the southern bank of the Grand River, the natural barrier separating Lebanon from Syria in the Northern province.
The Lebanese Army also had set up observation posts in the region following reports of stepped up smuggling of weapons from Syria to Lebanon and the trafficking of terrorists engaged in clashes with government troops.
The United Nations also has referred to reports about alleged smuggling of weapons from Syria to Lebanon.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Hezbollah-Israel war last summer, was supposed to end the smuggling of weapons into Lebanon from neighboring Syria.