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.
Information Minister, Melhem Riachy, pledged a great renaissance for the gov-run Tele Liban Station, through a new board of council and a new work mechanism. Minister Riachy’s words came on Friday during a ceremony held by “Tele Liban”, on the second anniversary of the late […]
NNA – Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, received today at the Grand Serail the President of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee Hassan Mneimne and the Director General of the Central Administration of Statistics in Lebanon Maral Tutelian. The meeting focused on the Comprehensive Census of Population and […]
Prime Minister Saad Hariri shall start tomorrow (Tuesday) a state visit to Egypt, where he is scheduled to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Hariri will also hold talks with this counterpart Sherif Ismail, Coptic Pope Tawadros II, and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed […]
