The Al Nusrah Front detained and tortured three youths in Arsal after accusing them of stealing a motorbike; all three were hospitalized with broken limbs. The military cordoned off an area near a Syrian refugee camp in Akkar after grenades were found. The World Bank has estimated that the Syrian conflict has cost Lebanon over $7.5 billion as it struggles to cope with an influx of over a million refugees. A religious official with the Brigades of Abdullah Azzam criticized death sentences for Sunnis imprisoned in Lebanon and said the group seeks to liberate them.
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