Car bomb kills at least three in E. Lebanese Hizballah bastion

Several people were killed and many others were injured Sunday night when a suicide attacker blew up a bomb-laden car outside the al-Hussein Mosque in the center of the Beqaa Valley town al-Nabi Othman near the Syrian border. .Hizballah military bases are clustered in the area. It has been targeted for Sunni attacks over its military intervention in Syria on the side of Bashar Assad. A group calling itself Ahrar al-Sunna Baalbek claimed responsibility on Twitter for the al-Nabi Othman bombing.