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 President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, paid a visit this Friday to Dr. Jamil Zogheib at his residence in Jeita, accompanied by General Shamel Roukoz. Dr. Jamil Zogheib is a pediatrician who, 10 years ago, suffered severe amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that progressively led […]
Deputy Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday that the understanding between the Lebanese Forces (LF) and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) was strategic and consecrated partnership and Charter. “It has been proven that this understanding was not seasonal but strategic and allotted a new equation on […]
Two warplanes belonging to the Israeli enemy violated, at 3:30 pm today, the Lebanese airspace over Kfarkila, and effectuated circular flights off the different Lebanese regions, a communiqué by the Lebanese army indicated on Monday. The jets left the Lebanese skies at 4:25 pm.
