Lebanon’s military prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Tuesday eight people with forming an armed gang in the eastern Bekaa valley and plotting terrorist attacks against the army with the aim of killing soldiers, a judicial source said.
The suspects include Lebanese and Syrian citizens, the source said. (more…)
An army patrol came under heavy gunfire during a raid on the house of a wanted man in Majdel Anjar in the Bekaa Valley. At least one member of the Lebanese Army is reported as injured. (more…)
Lebnaon’s Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir urged the Christians to join the Lebanese army in order to maintain a good balance of power .
“It is the duty of all Lebanese to defend their homeland,” Sfeir said during his Sunday sermon.
“If you don’t defend your country, not one will ,” he cautioned.
The Lebanese army command issued a statement in which it stated that it raided a house in Baalbeck , arrested 5 Palestinians and confiscated arms, ammunition , money and electronic instruments and is currently interrogating them before handing them over to the judicial authorities
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