DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian forces killed an Arab Muslim militant among a group trying to cross the border into Lebanon and arrested at least 34 others, the official Syrian news agency SANA said on Sunday.It said two soldiers were also killed in the clash. It did not say when the incident happened.SANA said members of the group trying to infiltrate were arrested, but it did not say how many. It also said that further investigations led to the arrest of 34 non-Syrian militants and finding passports and other documents in a house.A Lebanese security source said the slain militant was an Algerian and those arrested were from Lebanon and Algeria.Al Jazeera television quoted security sources in Damascus as saying that the militant was a Tunisian named Majdi bin Mohammed bin Said al-Zreibi.Lebanon’s al-Manar television station, mouthpiece of the Hizbollah guerrilla group, said the militants were on their way from Iraq to Lebanon.It said the clash happened overnight on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Homs near Lebanon’s northeastern borders.”Syrian security forces killed the militant … who holds an Arab nationality in an armed clash as he tried to leave the border to Lebanon illegally along with members of a radical group that he leads,” SANA said.

Several Lebanese militants have joined insurgents fighting U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

The United States has accused Damascus of allowing Arab militants to cross its border to Iraq to join an anti-U.S. insurgency there.  Syria says it is doing its best to control its side of the border.