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Lebanon
The UK urged its citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon. A group of Kuwaitis is being evacuated from Lebanon. A court charged five people, including a Syrian intelligence officer and two Lebanese sheikhs, with operating a terrorist cell in the north that targeted religious institutions and leaders. The cell is tied to recent mosque bombings in which 47 people were killed and 500 wounded. Authorities denied that rising concerns over a possible Western strike on Syria is disrupting airline service in Beirut. Security in Beirut is being beefed up due to a series of car bombings.
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Hezbollah
Iran to work with Russia to stop strike on Syria
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Syria
US consults oil experts as it weighs action against Syria
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China
Fears of Western strike on Syria spread in Mideast
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China
Syria crisis: Where key countries stand
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Proliferation of armed groups in Syria points to long war
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Lebanon
A source close to Hezbollah said the group would likely retaliate against Israel and other targets if the West conducts a large-scale strike on Syria’s government or military, but would probably not retaliate for limited strikes. The army disabled a grenade set to explode outside Tripoli’s Al Taqwa mosque, which was targeted in a car bombing last week. A military prosecutor extended the detention of Sheikh Abdel-Razzak Hammoud and Sheikh Ahmad Gharib, suspects in the recent car bombings that killed at least 47 people near two mosques in Tripoli. Gharib reportedly confessed during interrogation that Syrian intelligence was behind the…
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades claims responsibility for rocket attack on Israel
In a new statement, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades officially claimed the Aug. 22 rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon. The statement also denounced Hezbollah’s involvement in the ongoing Syrian civil war.
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Lebanon
Lebanon – Army, security close in on terrorists as country becomes center of regional struggle
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Bulgaria
Father of Canadian wanted for Bulgarian terror attack defends ‘good’ son’s innocence
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Lebanon
Powerful car bombs at two Salafist mosques in Tripoli this morning have killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 400. The attacks came about five minutes apart. Caretaker Defense Minister Ghosn said today’s attacks were carried out by the same persons who executed a recent car bombing in a Beirut suburb that killed 30 people and wounded over 300 more; that attack took place in a Hezbollah stronghold.
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Israeli Air Force strikes south of Beirut in response to rocket fire
Overnight the IAF carried out a strike on a “terror site” located south of Beirut. The strike comes a day after four rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, in an attack claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
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Lebanon
The Israeli military said it bombed a “terror site” near Na’ameh in retaliation for the firing of four rockets yesterday into northern Israel by an al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim group. The Lebanese government condemned yesterday’s attack on Israel as an attempt to destabilize Lebanon. Officials expressed “extreme alarm” at the recent alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.
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Hezbollah
In Lebanon, Neighbor’s War Feels Like Its Own
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades official claims rocket attack on Israel
An official from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades alleged on Twitter that fighters from the jihadist group were responsible for firing four rockets from Lebanon towards Israel. Israeli officials have said their “initial assessment” is that “global jihadists” were responsible.
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Treasury designates 4 members of Hezbollah’s leadership
The Treasury Department issued designations against four Hezbollah operatives for their role in a variety of terror activities across the Middle East. At least one of those designated is a member of Hezbollah’s Political Council.
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Lebanon
The head of the Lebanese army said his forces are conducting “a total war against terrorism.” The military is chasing a carbombing cell that “aims to provoke sectarian strife by targeting different regions,” he added. Security forces in the Bekaa valley confiscated 10 Grad rockets hidden in a truck that had come from Syria. Marwan Hadeed Brigades, a Syrian group named for a Muslim Brotherhood leader, claimed it fired three rockets at Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Prime Minister Hariri’s Future party bloc criticized Hezbollah for its “militia-like security measures.”
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Jordan
Jordan king urges Muslim clerics to fight Syria sectarian strife
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Lebanon
Even as War Rages, Economies of Syria and Lebanon Stay Intertwined
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Lebanon
Defense Minister Ghosn announced the arrests of a number of suspects, including several Syrians, linked to bomb attacks in Beirut, Hermel, and east Lebanon in recent months, and warned that the country was beginning to fall into the “grip of terrorism.” The leader of Hezbollah claimed that recent bombings in Lebanon are the work of “jihadist groups” fighting in Syria, and said he was ready to go himself to Syria to fight.
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Lebanon
A car bomb struck a complex used by Hezbollah in a Beirut suburb, killing at least 20 people and injuring over 200 more. Shortly after the blast, a video was released by a previously unknown Syrian Sunni group, the Aisha Umm-al Mouemeneen, claiming the attack and warning Hezbollah. The head of Hezbollah claimed that his group was responsible for a bomb attack on Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border last week and threatened further attacks for alleged Israeli incursions.
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Lebanon
Lebanon – Tripoli awash with weapons in absence of state
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Hezbollah
Iran’s New Defense Minister: Behind the 1983 Attack on the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut
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Lebanon
Two Turkish airline pilots were kidnapped in Beirut by members of the Zuwwar al-Imam Ali al-Reda, which demanded that nine Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped by Syrian rebels in Aleppo last year be released. Security forces arrested two Palestinians and a Syrian who were headed to the northeastern town of Arsal from Syria; arms and an explosive belt were confiscated. Thousands of Syrian refugees and rebel fighters have moved across the border to Arsal over the past two years.
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Hamas
Is Hamas Considering A Move to Beirut?
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Hezbollah
Israel fears next war with Hezbollah will hit civilians harder
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Hezbollah
Amid the ‘deceptive quiet’ of the Lebanon border
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Lebanon
An Egyptian was killed and his brother and a Syrian man were wounded when a bomb they were preparing detonated prematurely in Mount Lebanon; security forces found maps of three target areas and a basement full of IEDs. Protesters in the border town of Arida attacked a joint Lebanese-Syrian security center, calling for Lebanese forces to deploy along the border to prevent incursions by the Syrian military.
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Bulgaria
Suspect in Burgas bombing flew to Lebanon before blast: report
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Lebanon
Lebanon, unlike Iraq, Turkey, and Jordan, is refusing to set up refugee camps for Syrian refugees. Some 620,000 Syrians are currently registered as refugees in Lebanon; most are recent arrivals. The Salafi jihadist influence is said to be spreading in Lebanon, in reaction to Hezbollah’s role in Syria. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon denied reports that Turkey was planning to withdraw its troops. Prime minister-designate Salam ruled out forming a government soon; Hezbollah demands a cabinet role, but other parties want Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from Syria and play no part in the government.
