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Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:55 PM

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, react during a protest demanding their release and pressuring the government to act, as they blocked a main road linking Tripoli to Halba, in al-Mhmara town, northern Lebanon August 30, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday. The soldier, recognizable as Ali al-Sayyed, a Sunni Muslim from north Lebanon, was shown blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, writhing and kicking the dusty ground while a militant announces he will be killed. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:46 PM

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, take part in a protest demanding their release and pressuring the government to act, as they blocked a main road linking Tripoli to Halba, in al-Mhmara town, northern Lebanon August 30, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday. The soldier, recognizable as Ali al-Sayyed, a Sunni Muslim from north Lebanon, was shown blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, writhing and kicking the dusty ground while a militant announces he will be killed. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:44 PM

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, react during a protest demanding their release and pressuring the government to act, as they blocked a main road linking Tripoli to Halba, in al-Mhmara town, northern Lebanon August 30, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday. The soldier, recognizable as Ali al-Sayyed, a Sunni Muslim from north Lebanon, was shown blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, writhing and kicking the dusty ground while a militant announces he will be killed. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:41 PM

Mother of captured Lebanese soldier Khaled al-Hassan reacts in front of his picture during a protest by families of the Lebanese soldiers who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, demanding their release and pressuring the government to act, as they blocked a main road linking Tripoli to Halba, in al-Mhmara town, northern Lebanon August 30, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized the Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on Saturday. The soldier, recognizable as Ali al-Sayyed, a Sunni Muslim from north Lebanon, was shown blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, writhing and kicking the dusty ground while a militant announces he will be killed. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:27 PM

A Syrian woman holds her baby in front of her tent after she and her family fled from Raqqa in Syria to Lebanon, in Wazzani village near the Israeli border in south Lebanon August 30, 2014. Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighbouring countries as of Friday, but many remain trapped by the advance of Islamist militants or are having difficulty in reaching open border crossings, the United Nations said. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)