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.
Army chief, Jean Kahwaji met on Thursday afternoon at his Yarze office with a delegation of the US Senate Armed Services, headed by Thomas Govos. Discussions focused on the general situation in Lebanon and the region as well as the US assistance to the Lebanese […]
Lebanese President Michel Aoun arrived in Rome with the accompanying delegation. Upon his arrival the Lebanese President Michel Aoun made a brief statement to the Italian press, La Stampa, and declared that the future of the region will be set off in Beirut and added, […]
MP Ali Fayyad of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc announced Sunday that the controversial tour that his party organized Thursday for reporters on the Lebanese-Israeli border has been “deliberately misinterpreted” by some Lebanese parties. “Some parties trying to stir disputes based on exaggerated interpretations and […]
