(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A 24-hour ceasefire was agreed yesterday to halt fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants who seized a border town at the weekend, in the most serious spillover into Lebanon from Syria's three-year-old civil war. A security source said the ceasefire, due from 7pm (1600 GMT), aimed to allow time for a mediator to investigate the fate of 22 soldiers missing since the militants seized Arsal on Saturday. Sunni Muslim clerics have been pursuing peacekeeping efforts.
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