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.
A Lebanese Military Court delivered its verdict in the trial of a controversial cleric, Ahmad Al-Asir, linked to a shootout with government troops in 2013. The suspects were accused of having formed armed groups that attacked a government institution, the Lebanese army, killed 18 Lebanese […]
Habib Younes Translated by Hala Hayek Najjar All the tragedies, tears, wounds, and sorrows, however cruel and deep, are erased by one moment of joy, a moment of triumph. October 13, 1990; they tried to crush us, but we did not sign! October 13, 2017; […]
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday suggested a series of measures aimed at improving the State’s financial situation, amid a growing debate in the country about the approval of the long-stalled new wage scale and taxes aimed at funding it. In an apparent jab […]
