Syrian conflict extends to Lebanese villages

Ongoing heavy fighting in Syrian villages along the northern Lebanese border has pitted the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) against Syrian government forces collaborating with Hezbollah. Violent clashes in the Syrian region of Qusayr, adjacent to the Bekaa valley, incited the FSA to bomb Lebanese villages. A Katyusha rocket landed in the centre of al-Kasr, a Shiite village in Lebanon, late on Sunday night. Following battles in Talkalakh village in Homs, a report confirmed that six mortar bombs launched from Syria fell near the town of Aldbabih, in the northern Lebanese region of Akkar.