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.
Foreign Information Deputy Assistant at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, Faisal al-Mutalaqem, arrived on Sunday evening at Beirut International Airport, whereby he will be representing Kuwaiti Information Minister at the international conference organized by the National News Agency. Greeting the Kuwaiti Official at the Airport […]
Lebanese Army Command’s Guidance Directorate on Wednesday referred to the competent judiciary Syrian Ahmad Trad Al Hamadeh for belonging to terrorist Daesh organization and participating in an assault against an army outpost in Arsal.
NNA – House Speaker, Nabih Berri, cabled on Sunday Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, his Egyptian counterpart and Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Theodore II, condemning the terrorist attacks that targeted two Egyptian churches on Palm Sunday mass. Berri said that these […]
