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ANJAR, Lebanon (AP) - On a small hill overlooking this border town, once a stark symbol of Syrian power in Lebanon, white-gloved forensic experts comb the earth for grisly reminders of this country's brutal past. Authorities have known about the mass grave for years but they have only now begun to exhume it, digging up 28 bodies over the weekend in a new challenge to Syria. The site is near the former headquarters of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon. Syria vacated the headquarters - notorious for the torture of prisoners - when it withdrew its soldiers from Lebanon in April,...

Lebanese forces say they have excavated a suspected third mass grave. The find has come a day after they unearthed 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades. Security forces are digging for more bodies at the third site near two other mass graves close to an old onion farm in the eastern town of Anjar. The farm was used by Syrian intelligence as a notorious interrogation centre. Security sources say the 25 bodies found so far are mostly only skeletons in scraps of underwear. The bodies had been in the...