Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun said on Saturday that the security situation in the country is under the army’s full control.
Aoun’s comments were made during a visit to the Rangers Regiment mobilized in the Roumieh prison, whereby he warned that “any attempt to shake the country’s security would be faced with force and firmly.”
He also noted that the “qualitative operation” carried out by the army in the border town of Arsal earlier in the day “proves once again that terrorists will have no safe haven in any Lebanese region and that the army is capable of detecting any terrorist activity and will swiftly address it.”
Chairman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said on Friday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to send military aid to the Lebanese army shall the Lebanese government authorize it. “Iran’s permanent and firm stance is to stand […]
A patrol of the army intelligence directorate in the town of Arsal arrested on Saturday afternoon, the former mayor of Arsal Ali al-Hujeiri, known as “Abu Ajina” on the background of the kidnapping and killing of the Lebanese army soldiers in 2014. Al-Hujeiri was summoned […]
The Islamic State (IS) group has expelled the government troops from Syria’s northern province of al-Raqqa, a monitor group reported Monday. The IS unleashed a wide scale offensive on Monday, managing to reverse the progress of the Syrian army and allied fighters, said the Syrian […]