Kamal Ezzedine, who had been accused of “violence” toward the military, was shot and wounded after opening fire on security forces at a checkpoint in Arsal. A gunman shot and killed a bodyguard for Fatah al-Islam official Bilal Badr in the Ain al Hilweh refugee camp.
Police arrested four Syrians in Wadi Hamyed near the border and confiscated two vehicles as well as a hand grenade, knives, and communications equipment. Security forces also arrested six Syrians belonging to “an extremist organization” in an ambush near Beit Layha.
During a raid near Arsal, security forces arrested wanted Palestinian terrorist Bilal Kayed, an Abdullah Azzam Brigades operative linked to the 2007 murder of Spanish peacekeepers in south Lebanon as well as other murders, bombings, and weapons crimes. A military judge called for the death penalty for six Palestinian gang members from the Ain al-Hilweh […]
Jordanian jihadis returning from Syria war rattle US-aligned kingdom
Two Syrian airstrikes hit near Syrian refugee tents on the outskirts of Arsal in the Bekaa valley. The military prosecutor filed terrorism charges against Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Qassem, who has admitted to rigging car bombs and fundraising for the Al Nusrah Front; similar charges were also filed against others linked to Qassem who are at large.
Hamas’ growing rivalry with Islamic Jihad
Interior Minister Machnouk said Lebanon plans to restrict the influx of Syrian refugees, who now make up 27% of Lebanon’s population. Four Tripoli militia commanders surrendered to Army intelligence. The remains of a suicide bomber who detonated near the Iranian Embassy last year were returned to his relatives in Sidon. The head of an Islamic […]
Police arrested Hussain Ismail, the head of a car theft ring in the Bekaa valley, after a shootout in which he and an associate, and two police officers, were wounded. A group called the Free Sunni Brigades claimed the firing of three rockets from Syria into Lebanon near Labweh. The military prosecutor issued arrest warrants […]
Warily, Lebanon tackles violent spillover from Syria
During security sweeps in Tripoli and the Bekaa valley, authorities arrested additional suspects on charges of murder, kidnapping, auto theft, membership in a terrorist group, and other crimes. Among those arrested yesterday in Arsal was Ahmed al Atrash, suspected of rigging explosives-packed vehicles; he is the brother of slain terrorist Sami al Atrash and a […]
Hezbollah develops new tactics in Syrian civil war
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The military deployed heavily in Tripoli to block a protest from the Sunni Bab al Tabbaneh neighborhood against the new security crackdown. A judge issued arrest warrants for 200 suspects in Tripoli and elsewhere, and at least 43 have been detained. Security forces arrested five wanted suspects in the Bekaa valley and seized several stolen […]
Lebanon – Future Movement, Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya re-examine ties
A military judge indicted four Syrians on charges bringing car bombs into Lebanon and membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham; one of the suspects was arrested in Arsal last month and the other three are at large. Arrest warrants were issued for pro-Assad politician Rifaat Eid and 11 associates on terrorism […]
Security forces arrested Mohammad Qassam and seven aides, all Syrians, in a refugee camp in Arsal; Qassam is accused of heading an al Qaeda group that rigs cars with explosives and sends them into Lebanon. Masked gunmen shot a Fatah-linked Sunni sheikh in the Ain el Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon. Hezbollah has turned over […]
Lebanon: Residents of Tripoli apprehensive as militants still at large
Lebanese patriarch suggests housing Syrian refugees in Syria
Salafist sheikh Dai al Islam al Shahhal warned that “something big will happen” because security forces had seized two cars from his convoy following grenade attacks during security sweeps in Tripoli. Hours later, gunmen ambushed an Army patrol in Akkar, killing two soldiers and wounding a third. Security forces in Tripoli detained two people, said […]
Eight people were killed and 10 injured in clashes between Fatah and Ansar Allah factions in the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon. Security forces in Tripoli arrested two militia leaders in Jabal Mohsen and another in Bab al Tabbaneh, and also confiscated weapons in Jabal Mohsen; security forces also arrested three fugitives in […]
US lawmakers draft new Hezbollah sanctions
European Islamists including UK-based extremist cleric Anjem Choudary called off a protest planned for Beirut; its aim was to denounce attempts to arrest Sheikh Omar Bakri and Muslims in north Lebanon, condemn alleged “conspiracy” between the Lebanese government and the Assad regime, and call for sharia law and the establishment of the caliphate. Three soldiers […]
In an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, three rockets hit two villages linked to Hezbollah in the Bekaa valley. The attack was also claimed by the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, which earlier criticized the new security plan for Tripoli. Charges were filed against eight Lebanese men, six of […]
The house of extremist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad, who has been banned from the UK, was raided during security sweeps in Tripoli that netted 75 arrests. Two rockets ready to launch toward the Shiite town of Nabi Othman, where the Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon carried out a suicide car bombing last month, were found […]
New Lebanese Domestic Violence Law Evokes Sharp Criticism
Security forces warned that large numbers of Al Nusrah Front fighters have moved into Lebanon recently and are plotting with other radical groups, some based in the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. Some extremist fighters currently in Akkar are said to be planning to train with the Free Syrian Army in Syria. Arms are […]
The army dismantled a car bomb in Wadi Hmayyed near Arsal. Unknown perpetrators blew up a large building under construction in Akkar, reviving sectarian tensions. Warrants were issued for 200 suspects linked to violence and crime in Tripoli; among those sought are militia leaders in both the Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and the Sunni […]
A suicide car bomb detonated near a recently erected military checkpoint outside Arsal, killing three soldiers and wounding four others. The Liwa Ahrar al-Sunna in Baalbek claimed the attack, saying it was to avenge the death of Sami Atrash, a suspected maker of suicide car bombs who was killed after a March 27 shootout with […]
The Army confiscated a large cache of weapons and bomb-making materials during a raid in Akkar. Security forces launched launched raids in Tripoli after masked gunmen killed an Army officer and a policeman in separate attacks. Dai al-Islam al-Shahal, a leading Salafist, urged Sunni youth to defend their rights. Hezbollah is said to be revising […]
Masked gunmen killed an army officer in Tripoli. Suspected car bomb expert Sami Ahmad Atrash died following a shootout in Arsal with police; authorities are conducting raids in Arsal in search of terrorists linked to Atrash. After an Islamic Jihad initiative, Fatah agreed to a memorandum of understanding with Islamists in Lebanon, including Hamas, the […]