Security

President Michel Aoun discussed Monday the bilateral relations between Lebanon and Italy and means to develop them during a meeting with the Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti, at Baabda presidential palace. Aoun praised the role played by the Italian force working with the United Nations […]

Public Works Minister Youssef Finianos stressed that the current priority at the ministry is upgrading the level of implementation of public safety rules at the airport.   During the inauguration of a joint workshop between Lebanon and the European Union on airport security and aviation […]

BEIRUT: The Netherlands will step up support for Lebanon’s Armed Forces as part of a large cooperation program aimed at bolstering the military’s border security and counterterrorism capabilities, Dutch Ambassador to Lebanon Han-Maurits Schaapveld told Annahar Wednesday. The support program – which will be split […]

Lebanon: Three suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants were killed and three others wounded in a bombing when a pickup truck they were in exploded in a northeast Lebanon border town on Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star. The incident took place in Arsal’s Jameh […]

Lebanese Army chief General Joseph Aoun on Tuesday received in Yarze Russian Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin and discussed with him bilateral military ties. Among General Aoun’s visitors had been Environment Minister Tarek Khatib, State Minister for Human Rights Affairs Ayman Shoukair and others.

National Defense Minister, Yacoub Sarraf, met on Tuesday afternoon with the Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, accompanied by the Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon, Milagros Hernando, with talks featuring high on issues related to the region, especially the crisis of the Syrian refugees and how […]

After the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America, in what represents a blatant and obvious “right move”, other countries and powers in the world started reanalyzing their positions, either in how they may adjust to the new American […]

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim stressed Friday that “Lebanon is no longer an arena,” emphasizing that “nothing justifies harboring terrorists and suicide attackers” in the Palestinian and Syrian refugee camps. “Any security deterioration in any Palestinian camp or Syrian gathering would be an […]

A Syrian national suspected of transferring money to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militant group in Syria has been arrested in south Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Friday. Lebanese authorities in the south have detained Ahmed al-Issa in the southern district of Tyre, NNA said. […]