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.
The Head of Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations Nawaf Salam organized a welcome ceremony for the Lebanese community in New York, where Lebanese nationals and U.S. citizens of Lebanese descent from all over the United States attended to welcome President Aoun and […]
FPM leader and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil visited the Chouf towns on Sunday after a FPM delegation, composed of Elie Haddad and Paul Aoun, visited PSP leader Walid Jumblatt in Clemenceau to inform him of the visit and ask him to be part of it. […]
President Michel Aoun held on Tuesday the long anticipated meeting with Saudi King Salman bin Aziz in Riyadh, where talks focused on improving ties between the two countries. An official welcoming ceremony was organized at al-Yamama Palace, greeting the President and the accompanying delegation. Discussions […]
