After three months of relative security, Lebanon has been rocked by two car bombs in just four days, the second hitting a checkpoint near Tayyouneh in Beirut late Monday night while locals were watching a World Cup match.
On Friday, a suicide bomber detonated himself near a checkpoint in Dahr al Baydar, on a road that links Beirut to the Bekaa Valley and the Syrian border. Also on Friday, a hotel in the tourist-friendly Hamra district was raided with local media claiming they arrested operatives from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an Islamist extremist group that gained prominence fighting in Syria and made international news earlier this month with a storm operation through large parts of Iraq.
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