Following a personal dispute between van owners for public transportation, security forces successfully reopened Aley international highway to both sides of traffic.
(update) Security forces reopen Aley international highway
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Nusra-Linked Syrian Held in Beirut as Suspect Arrested for Plotting Attack on Army
The State Security agency arrested Thursday a Syrian man in Beirut on charges of “entering Lebanon illegally” and “having ties and contacts with al-Nusra Front,” al-Qaida’s Syria branch, media reports said. Later on Thursday, the General Security agency announced that another Syrian has been arrested […]
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Raad Calls for Balancing between ‘Financial Stability, Sovereignty’
Hizbullah’s top lawmaker called Monday for “balancing” between “financial and banking stability” and the requirements of national “sovereignty,” amid a row over the implementation in Lebanon of a U.S. anti-Hizbullah sanctions law. “It is a bizarre paradox that some have been demanding sovereignty and rejecting […]
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Fear of ‘Catastrophe Unfolding’ Amid Fighting in Falluja
Along the battle line north of Falluja, small units of Shiite fighters are raining mortar shells and rockets down on the city and its Islamic State occupiers. Militia graffiti is scrawled in red paint along a network of low walls cratered by bullets and bombs, […]