Syrian gunmen from the Al Nusrah Front killed Khaled al-Mustafa, a Syrian, in Arsal; Al Nusrah members also reportedly kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old Syrian youth in Arsal. It is not clear if there were two murder victims or one. The Army detained 22 people in Tripoli for firing guns in the air to celebrate […]
The Al Nusrah Front detained and tortured three youths in Arsal after accusing them of stealing a motorbike; all three were hospitalized with broken limbs. The military cordoned off an area near a Syrian refugee camp in Akkar after grenades were found. The World Bank has estimated that the Syrian conflict has cost Lebanon over […]
The Interior Ministry asked Syrian refugees in Lebanon to refrain from returning to Syria, and said those who do return after June 1 will risk losing their refugee status. Mahmoud Hayek, a Hezbollah official reportedly killed in Syria, was sentenced in absentia to hard labor and life in prison for trying to assassinate Minister Butros […]
Authorities arrested wanted al Qaeda-linked militant Sheikh Omar Bakri Fustoq in Aley, southwest of Beirut, yesterday. Lebanese media reports said that Mahmoud Hayek, a Hezbollah official who was wanted for a 2012 assassination attempt on Minister Butros Harb, was killed while fighting in Syria. Rockets fired from Syria hit in an area between the Bekaa […]
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Military authorities in southern Beirut arrested wanted “global terrorist” Imad Fawzi Ali Saedi, an Iraqi, who confessed to involvement in bombings in Syria and may have been planning attacks in Lebanon. Gunmen attacked an army patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli, wounding eight soldiers and destroying a tank. The patrol had […]
Two Lebanese men were critically wounded when Syrian troops opened fire on them at the Fares crossing in Wadi Khaled. Eight people were wounded in clashes between rival Palestinian groups in the Ain al-Hilweh camp; a “separation force” consisting of members of the Usbat al-Ansar Islamist group and the Islamic Jihadist Movement was formed.
The Army arrested Rabih Abdel-Karim Younes in Hnaider in Akkar, and seized about 6,600 bullets from his van. Police in Arsal arrested an armed Syrian national who was trying to infiltrate into Lebanon. The UN is seeking to establish Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon that are farther from the border.
Red Cross Says Far More Funds Needed for Syria
Masked gunmen shot wanted Fatah official Alaa Ali Hajir in the Ain al Hilweh camp. Four wanted Tripoli militia leaders turned themselves in to the Army; four other militants surrendered to Army intelligence later in the day.
Intelligence agents arrested Arsal residents Hussein al-Hujairi and Hilal Amoun at a checkpoint in Hrabta in the Bekaa valley, and seized their car, which was loaded with weapons and RPGs. A rocket fired from an area near the Syrian border landed in Ain al-Jawzeh in the Bekaa valley; the Free Sunnis of Baalbek brigade claimed […]
Members of the Al Nusrah Front drove from hideouts along the Syrian border to Arsal, where they kidnapped four Syrians. Fighters from Al Nusrah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and the Free Syrian Army are thought to be living on the outskirts of Arsal. The Army arrested five people in southern Beirut […]
Security services are investigating reports that T.M.T., a Palestinian in the Al Nusrah Front, is recruiting fighters for terrorist attacks in Lebanon and is in “constant contact” with al Qaeda in Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq; and that Ghazi A., a Lebanese man from Wadi Khaled, is working with Abdel-Mohsen H., a Lebanese explosives expert, to […]
Hamas not giving up military wing, despite agreement
Residents clashed with armed Syrian rebels in Arsal; three Lebanese men were wounded and two others possibly kidnapped. A senior Iranian military official claimed that Lebanon is now Iran’s first line of defense.
Members of the Syrian Sunni militant group Liwaa Ahrar al-Sunna clashed with Hezbollah fighters outside the border town of Brital. Baalbek residents protested Army security sweeps. Authorities detained 49 Syrian and Palestinian refugees who were trying to travel from Syria via Lebanon to another Arab country with false documents. The Army arrested seven wanted persons […]
The Sunni militant group Liwaa Ahrar al-Sunna claimed to have captured three Hezbollah members near Baalbek. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon returned after a month’s absence blamed on security concerns.
Lebanon – Beirut’s southern suburbs exhale as bombings fade
A group of gunmen ambushed a Lebanese army patrol on the outskirts of Arsal, sparking a clash in which five soldiers were injured. Security forces mounted a search for the gunmen, who escaped. A Lebanese group called Liwaa Ahrar Al-Sunna claimed the attack.
Head of Lebanon’s Islamic Group opposes any intervention in Syria
Security forces in the Bekaa valley arrested Syrian national Amjad Shehadeh, who is suspected of recruiting fighters for the Al Nusrah Front. Mohammad Abdeldayem al Aaraj, a.k.a. Abou Jassem, the head of the Free Syrian Army’s military council in the Syrian regions of Qusair and Qalamoun, was arrested on April 24 in Arsal with nine […]
Omar al-Hajj Youssef a.k.a. Omar Hakim was arrested in Tripoli after he tossed a grenade at a military unit, injuring seven soldiers and six civilians. Islamists in the Ain al Hilweh refugee camp took military and security measures “to send a message” to rivals in the camp. Former Security Chief Jamil al-Sayyed talked with President […]
Assailants threw grenades at soldiers in Tripoli; eight soldiers were wounded as well as two civilians. The Army deployed in southern Beirut after clashes between families in which several people were wounded, an apartment was set on fire, and at least one RPG was used.
Lebanon – Tripoli militia leaders abound despite crackdown
Three rockets hit outside Hermel, slightly wounding a woman; the Brigade of Free Sunnis in Baalbek claimed the attack. A worker lost his leg after stepping on a landmine near Baalbek. A Jordanian fighter was arrested in Arsal. A string of 11 car bomb cases from late 2013 and early 2014 was referred to the […]
The Panopticon: A peek into Lebanese prisons
Warrants were issued for the arrest of Qossay Moussa, a Lebanese national from Wadi Khaled, and Hussein Berri, a stateless resident, who are accused of membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and plotting to kill Lebanese soldiers. Security forces arrested 10 Syrians with fake IDs trying to enter Lebanon in Arsal. […]
Wanted Islamist Mohammad Abdullah Jumaa, a member of the al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, escaped an assassination attempt in the Ain al Hilweh refugee camp. Rockets fired from Syria, some by the Assad regime and some by militants, hit Bekaa valley towns. Two grenades were thrown in Tripoli but no casualties resulted. Security forces raided […]
Lebanon’s Sufi orders threatened by rise in Salafism