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.
NNA – Army Commander General Joseph Aoun on Monday met respectively at his Yarzeh office with MPs Ahmed Fatfat and Amal Abu Zeid, as well as former Ministers Abdel Rahim Murad and Marwan Khaireddin. Talks reportedly touched on the current situation in the country. General […]
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi held talks Friday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace. Al-Rahi called for “an electoral law that guarantees the value of each citizen’s vote, so that they can hold their MPs accountable,” state-run National News Agency reported. Christian parties in […]
A delegation of “Hezbollah” visited on Thursday Bkirki, where they met with Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi, on the occasion of the festive season. The delegation was led by Party’s Poliburo head Sayyid Ibrahim Amine Sayyed, and includes Mustapha Hajj Ali, Mohammed Saiid al-Khansa […]
