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.”
Fighters aligned with Libya’s United Nations-backed unity government are advancing along the Mediterranean coast toward the Islamic State stronghold of Surt, signaling the first major assault on territory that, since last year, has become the terrorist group’s largest base outside of Iraq and Syria. Two […]
The Head of the Finance and Budget Committee, Deputy Ibrahim Kanaan is to be held a press conference on Monday afternoon, March 20, 2017, at the center of the congress and meetings of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, in the Tayyar Center, Sin el-fil, near the […]
Hizbullah fighters on Friday bombed militants from al-Nusra Front in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, inflicting casualties, Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV reported. “Islamic Resistance jihadi fighters have targeted a gathering of Nusra Front terrorists in the Dahr al-Hawa area in the outskirts […]