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Baalbek

a town in E Lebanon: an important city in Phoenician and Roman times; extensive ruins. Pop.: 150 000 (1998 est.)
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Several members of the Nusra Front also died after Hezbollah targeted them with artillery in an area called Dahr al-Hawa, on the outskirts of Arsal, south of Ras Baalbek.
Party members erected checkpoints and inspected identification papers of motorists and passers-by in the city of Baalbek.
BAALBEK, Lebanon: Municipal trucks early Monday reopened all side roads leading to the commercial district in Baalbek hours after a number of people claiming to be merchants blocked them to press authorities to beef up security measures in the Bekaa Valley city.
BEIRUT: Residents of the northeastern town of Ras Baalbek have discovered an unusually large bat, state media reported Monday.
According to a military source, the Lebanese Army devastated the ISIL terrorists in the Baalbek Highlands on Wednesday, killing over 15 enemy combatants as they attempted to expel the terrorist group from eastern Lebanon, Al Masdar reported.
The earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, hit the northern parts of the Lebanese city of Baalbek in northern Lebanon.
The Israeli aircraft flew over the village of Kfar Kalla and circled over the regions of Al-Rayak and Baalbek before leaving the Lebanese airspace over the village of Rmesih.
Hairy situation draws gunmen to Baalbek hospital A patient, angry that a doctor tried to shave his body hair to perform an operation, called his friends to open fire on a Baalbek hospital Monday, sources said.
In speeches at a dinner in Baalbek and at a lunch in Hermel hosted by Sheikh Mohammed Yazbeck, head of Hizbullah's religious committee and the religious representative in Lebanon of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, Rai stood firm, ignoring March 14 Christian politicians' harsh criticisms.
Staff at Lebanon's Electricite du Liban have warned that some workers in Baalbek's energy station have been threatened if they do not transfer electricity to certain bodies, the Daily Star has reported.
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