Lebanese army soldiers step down stairs carefully during clashes in the old market of the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday May 15, 2012. Lebanese troops deployed Tuesday in tense areas of the northern city of Tripoli after three days of sectarian clashes killed at least six people in a spillover of the 14-month-long conflict in neighboring Syria. The city's fighting camps break down along sectarian and political lines. On one side are Sunni Muslims who support the rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. On the other are members of the tiny Alawite sect, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam who are Assad's most loyal supporters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
The Lebanese army arrested the ‘largest arms dealer’ in Lebanon in the border town of Britel in the Bekaa region, media reports said on Wednesday.
The army staged security raids in the said area and was able arrest the dealer, who was identified as Aahed Mohsen Mazloum, they added.
Mazloum is one of the largest arms dealers in the country, it said.
The army is in a constant battle against outlaws who seek refuge in remote border areas in Lebanon.
In March, it staged raids on residences of the most wanted drug kingpin, Nouh Zoaiter in the Bekaa region in east Lebanon.
Zoaiter is wanted on several arrest warrants including the Interpol.
Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said he supports an electoral law format suggested by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil because any other law format would give his party 15 seats less at the parliament, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday. “We support a hybrid law format, to […]
The Lebanese Army and Public Security continue to search for the body of the martyr Abbas Medlej in the Bear Valley at Jrud Arsal. The latest news has announced that remains of a body have been found in the area of Arsal indicated by the […]
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 […]
