Lebanon

Serbian peacekeepers in Lebanon "safe"

BELGRADE -- All Serbian Army members who serve in UN's UNFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon are well and safe, the Ministry of Defense has said.

Spokesman Maj. Jovan Krivokapic said that the ministry was "monitoring the situation in the field and maintaining constant contact with our people deployed in the operation zone."

Lebanese laws and courts governing marriage and child custody "discriminate against women" from all religious groups, often trapping them in abusive unions, a Human Rights Watch report published Jan. 19 said.
      

A double suicide attack that killed eight people at a cafe in the Lebanese city of Tripoli was carried out by the Islamic State group, the interior minister said on Jan. 11, contradicting a claim of responsibility by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
   

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued a warning to its citizens currently in Lebanon or planning to travel to Lebanon, urging them to be “vigilant.”

Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Dec. 3 that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.

The Central Narcotics Bureau busted a drug ring in Lebanon that had employed a Bulgarian chemist to produce Captagon pills for export to a country in the Gulf, Lebanese police said on Tuesday.

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Saudi Arabia and France sealed an agreement Tuesday for Riyadh to finance the delivery of $3 billion worth of French weapons to the Lebanese army, which has come under mounting jihadist attack.
      

Germany's foreign minister called Oct. 28 for a "vow of solidarity" from the international community for millions of Syrian refugees and the countries such as Lebanon struggling to host them.