Interior Minister al-Mashnouq warned on Sunday that the security situation will deteriorate in Lebanon during the upcoming stage due to the ongoing war in neighboring country Syria, accusing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of standing behind Tripoli's attack.
“Coordination is strong between security agencies to encounter the upcoming stage,” Mashnouq told reporters after a meeting for the northern city of Tripoli's sub-Security Council a day after a double suicide bombing that targeted Jabal Mohsen neighborhood.
Full StoryThe army detained on Sunday three people pending an investigation in links to the twin suicide bombing in Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in the northern coastal city of Tripoli.
According to the state-run National News Agency, the three men were detained as part of an investigation into Saturday's attack on a cafe in the flashpoint Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen.
Full StorySeven people were killed and many wounded in an explosion that rocked a cafe in Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen.
The National New Agency said that a “suicide bomber blew himself at Cafe Omran in Jabal Mohsen and when the residents of the area gathered another suicide bomber blew himself up.”
Full StoryJudge Alaa al-Khatib, the judicial investigator into the bombings that rocked Tripoli's al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques, on Thursday summoned Arab Democratic Party chief Ali Eid to a hearing session as a “defendant.”
Should Eid fail to show up at the January 10 session, the judge would take the appropriate legal measure, state-run National News Agency reported.
Full StoryTurkish Airlines, the last remaining foreign carrier offering flights to Libya, said Tuesday it was suspending all flights to the conflict-wracked country amid the worsening security situation.
The Turkish flag-carrier said that it had suspended flights to Misrata, its only remaining destination in the country after it had earlier pulled its flights to the capital Tripoli as well as Benghazi and the inland desert city of Sebha.
Full StoryHundreds of mourners, including politicians, bid farewell to former Prime Minister Omar Karami in his hometown in the northern city of Tripoli on Friday.
Karami was laid to rest in an official funeral after prayers, which were led by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan at the Mansouri Great mosque in the presence of Tripoli Mufti Sheikh Malek al-Shaar.
Full StoryNotorious fugitive Osama Mansour is reportedly still in the northern port city of Tripoli and continuously changing his residence, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The daily said that Mansour has changed his features and is still located in Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in overcrowded areas.
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A Palestinian man accused of transferring explosives to Sidon's Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp was arrested in northern Lebanon on Monday.
Full StoryA woman and six children survived on Tuesday after their car drifted off the road and plunged into the sea on Tripoli's Qalamoun highway.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the woman was slightly injured and admitted to al-Ninni hospital in Tripoli.
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Two people were injured Sunday as a personal dispute erupted into gunfire in the Tripoli district of el-Mina, state-run National News Agency reported.
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