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.”
Hizbullah’s top lawmaker called Monday for “balancing” between “financial and banking stability” and the requirements of national “sovereignty,” amid a row over the implementation in Lebanon of a U.S. anti-Hizbullah sanctions law. “It is a bizarre paradox that some have been demanding sovereignty and rejecting […]
Prime Minister, Saad Hariri proposed during the cabinet session on Wednesday “formation of a ministerial committee to face any emergency and it remains in touch with the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister to follow up on the measures that could be taken […]
The Free Patriotic Movement inaugurated its Anfeh office under the patronage of Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Gibran Bassil, who asserted that the collective will, which triumphed in electing a head of State, will triumph once again in decreeing a new electoral law. Bassil told the […]