evidence: Description [edit]The border starts at confluence of the Nahr al-Kabir river with the Mediterranean Sea, and then follows this river eastwards some distance inland. The Lebanese border forms a salient to include the villages of Karha and Knaisse Akkar in the north-east of Akkar District, just west of the Syrian Lake Homs, before turning to the south-east via a series of irregular lines, cutting across the Orontes (at 34°27′18″N 36°29′24″E / 34.455°N 36.490°E) and the trans-Beqaa road between Qaa and Al-Qusayr (at 34°25′18″N 36°32′36″E / 34.4217°N 36.5433°E), reaching the Anti-Lebanon Mountains at about 34°13′N 36°36′E / 34.22°N 36.60°E. The border then turns towards the south-west, generally following the Anti-Lebanon Mountains via a series of irregular lines, until reaching Mount Hermon. [...] Relations between the two new states were often tense, and a precise border has never been fixed officially with any precision, in spite of Lebanese demands to this effect and some preliminary conducted in the 1950–1960s.[11][12] Many Lebanese feared that its larger neighbour harboured designs to annex the country. In 1975 long-standing sectarian tensions within Lebanon erupted into civil war, prompting Syria to occupy the country the following year; Syrian troops were to remain in Lebanon until 2005.[13][14] Since 2011, the border region has been seriously affected by the spillover from the Syrian Civil War. [...] - Jusiyah al-Amar-Qaa Border Crossing[15]