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.”
The State Security agency arrested Thursday a Syrian man in Beirut on charges of “entering Lebanon illegally” and “having ties and contacts with al-Nusra Front,” al-Qaida’s Syria branch, media reports said. Later on Thursday, the General Security agency announced that another Syrian has been arrested […]
British Ambassador to Lebanon, Hugo Shorter, welcomed in a press statement the security appointments by the Lebanese cabinet today. In his statement, Ambassador Shorter said: “I welcome the Cabinet’s decision today to make new appointments to the positions of Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces […]
An Israeli enemy drone violated on Tuesday at 12:00 noon the Lebanese skies from above Alma Al-Shaab village, executed a circular flight over Baabda and Beirut and its suburbs, and then left at 11:10 p.m. from above Nakoura village, a communiqué issued by the Army […]