Al-Akhbar says that there are two rea­sons behind the Syr­ian mil­i­tary rein­force­ment on the North­ern Lebanese borders.

- To pro­vide a geo­graphic defense line for the Russ­ian sea base in Syria’s Mediter­ranean port of Tartus.

- To con­front armed groups oppose the regime in Syria, financed by some regional pow­ers and the Amer­i­cans. Syr­ian and Euro­peans want to act very fast before the dan­ger of these groups’ increases.

The source repeated what Sarkozy said in the four-countries-summit:

We need Syria in Lebanon and with Iran, the United States know Syria’s major role in this frame..The United States know that we [France] are here and what the con­di­tions joins us are, what we talk about and what we say.