(Reuters/Washington Post) Roula Najem - Lebanese troops took over a key Syrian checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway on Monday and the Syrians, now committed to leaving Lebanon by April 30, prepared to abandon a nearby intelligence building. Witnesses said Lebanese soldiers were manning the roadblock at the eastern town of Shtoura in the Bekaa Valley, replacing Syrian intelligence agents who held it for nearly three decades.
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