BEIRUT: The Cabinet Monday discussed the thorny issue of security and military appointments amid warnings that failure to resolve the dispute over the border town of Arsal could spark a new civil war.

Statements made by a number of ministers showed that the Cabinet’s main parties were entirely in disagreement on how to deal with ISIS and Nusra Front militants entrenched on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal.

March 8 ministers see the outskirts of Arsal as an area occupied by the militants and that the state must work to liberate it.

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