Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military plans to construct a security barrier along the border with Lebanon. Officials said the barrier would protect an Israeli community along the northern border with Lebanon. The officials said the barrier would be made of concrete and reach a height of seven meters. “This would improve the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Lebanon has captured a weapons ship bound for neighboring Syria. The Lebanese military said the Sierra Leonean-flagged Lutfullah-2 was intercepted and taken to Beirut on April 28. The military said weapons were found aboard the ship and that 11 crew members were detained. “The Army intercepted April 27 off the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, amid pressure to cut national defense budgets, was preparing to undergo a reduction. Diplomats said a range of European Union countries were preparing to reduce their contingents in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon over the next year. The diplomats said at least [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — An Al Qaida-aligned commander has been killed in the Sunni revolt in Syria. Lebanese security sources said Abdul Ghani Jawhar was killed in a bomb blast in Syria on April 20 in Qusair near the Lebanese border. They said Jawhar, commander of the Al Qaida-aligned Fatah Al Islam, was killed [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels have acquired weapons from the Lebanese Army. The Lebanese daily Al Akhbar reported that the military was investigating thefts of weapons and other equipment throughout northern Lebanon. On April 10, the newspaper asserted that the weapons were being smuggled to Sunni rebels in neighboring Syria. “Those in the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The United States has been concerned over Lebanon’s assistance to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has repeatedly warned the Lebanese government not to help the Assad crackdown on the opposition. The officials said such aid by Beirut could endanger U.S. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — President Bashar Assad has ordered military operations along the borders of Lebanon and Turkey. Opposition sources said Assad has approved assaults by the Syrian Army on targets along the borders of Lebanon and Turkey. They said elite forces were firing toward suspected rebels inside Lebanon and Turkey in broad daylight [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Lebanon and the United States have intensified military cooperation amid the revolt in neighboring Syria. Lebanon and the United States have convened a series of high-level military talks in 2012 in an effort to help border security for the Arab state. In the latest meeting, U.S. Fifth Fleet commander Vice [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has decided to deploy the Air Force to defend its new natural gas fields. Officials said the Israel Air Force was assigned to launch patrols around gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Lebanon. They said the Air Force has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles to help protect [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpted from an article by Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System The intense fighting of late January and early February in Syria, coupled with the vastly improved manipulation of the jihadists there by Iranian intelligence … have already enabled Syria’s Bashar Assad administration to take control over the war in Syria. [...]
