Press TV - Lebanons Army has announced a ceasefire in its operation against the Takfiri terror group of Daesh near the countrys border with Syria to help start negotiations over the fate of capitive soldiers. The ceasefire takes effect at 7:00 a.m. (0400 GMT) on Sunday, a week into the offensive, a statement issued by the military said.A security ...

Press TV- Lebanese army troops have been attacking positions held Daesh terrorists near the Syrian border for a second day after liberating a third of the militant-held territory. On Sunday, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported that the army forces were firing heavy artillery and rockets at the Daesh positions in the northeastern village ...

Press TV - The Lebanese army has discovered a weapons cache left behind by defeated militants from theJabhat Fateh al-Sham terror group, formerlyknown as al-Nusra Front, in the northeast of the country. The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), citing an unnamed official from Lebanons General Directorate of General Security, reported on Friday ...

Alwaght,- Antoine Lahad, the head of the former so-called South Lebanon Army, is dead. L' Orient Le Jour, a French-language publication in Lebanon was the first media source to report that Lahad has died at the age of 88 from a heart attack in the French capital Paris on September 11, 2015. However, in Lebanese eyes this was not the first time when ...

Lebanese forces have wrested control of a strategic hilltop in the eastern province of Beqaa, and prevented Takfiri militants from infiltrating into the region. Units of Lebanese forces launched theiroperationson the outskirts of Arsal town, situated 124 kilometers (77 miles) northeast of the capital, Beirut,on Friday and succeeded in taking control ...

[caption id="attachment_153438" align="alignright" width="201"] Lebanons Defense Minister Samir Moqbel (R) and Army chief Gen. Jean Kahwagi (C) arrive in Ras Baalbek to inspect troops guarding against terrorist intrusion at Syria border, Feb. 27, 2015.[/caption] Lebanons army has pledged to counter Syria-based Takfiri terrorists threatening to infiltrate ...

The wife of the elusive Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad, has been reportedly detained at the Lebanese-Syrian border, Lebanese security officials said on Tuesday. Baghdadis wife was held along with one of his sons, according to Reuters news agency. Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported the army had detained her in ...