Soldier killed in north Lebanon bus attack, 42 arrested
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The Lebanese Army Friday arrested at least 42 Syrians hours after a soldier was killed and several others were wounded when a military bus carrying troops along the road in Bireh in the northern Akkar province came under fire.
A security source told The Daily Star that Jamal Jean al-Hashem, a 19-year-old private in the Army, was instantly killed in the 4:45 a.m. attack. His body was taken to Salam Hospital in his hometown of Qobeiyat.
The source said a number of soldiers were also wounded in the attack, but would not give an exact number.
Sorrow and grief gripped his hometown, and residents blocked the Qobeiyat road in protest.
Hours after the attack, the source said the Army arrested at least 42 Syrians during raids on the outer edges of Bireh and Khirbet Daoud.
The Lebanese Army confirmed the assault on the bus, saying the military cordoned off the vicinity where the attack took place.
In a separate statement, the military said two patrol units came under fire and an unidentified gunman who also tossed a hand grenade at one of its centers in al-Bisar neighborhood in Tripoli between 3:33 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.
Soldiers responded to the source of the gunfire and were in pursuit of the perpetrators.
A security source said another Lebanese soldier was wounded when an Army patrol in Zahriyeh, Tripoli, came under fire. He was identified as Jamal Ashek.
Shortly afterward, the Lebanese Army found a 200 gram homemade bomb near a shop in the Tripoli neighborhood of Abi Samra. Experts safely detonated the explosive device.
The raid against Syrians in Khirbet Daoud came after Lebanese troops searched the house of Atef Saadeddine, a soldier who had deserted the Army, there, the source said. No arrests were made in the initial raid in their hunt for the bus attackers.
However, an individual in the Tripoli neighborhood of Akoumi was arrested later in the day for his involvement in opening fire on an Army checkpoint in a previous attack.
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IS militants capture Kurdish civilians near Kobane
October 16, 2014
ARA News
Kobane, Syria –Insurgents of the Islamic State (IS/ISIL) arrested a number of Kurdish civilians from the western countryside of Kobane, northern Syria.
Local sources in Shuyookh area in western Kobane told ARA News that at least 6 Kurdish young men were captured on Wednesday by IS militants –who stormed villages in the western countryside of Kobane earlier this week.
“They (the detainees) left their homes and crossed into Turkey about two weeks ago, and returned Wednesday only to take some luggage as they suffer sharp shortage of basic supplies at the borders, but unfortunately the IS terrorists found them and they were captured and taken to an unknown destination,” a family member of one of the detainees told
ARA News, on condition of anonymity.
“The men who were captured by IS militants in western Kobane on Wednesday are Saleh Naasan, Fawaz Omar, Ahmed Omar and Mohammed Mustafa, as well as some others but we don’t know them yet,” the source said.
IS militant fighters seized major villages in the western countryside of Kobane earlier this week, including al-Qubba, Jaada, al-Qasimiya and al-Uwaina.
The civilians, who were evacuated from their villages by the IS group, are now scattered in Jarablus and Manbij near Aleppo, as many of them crossed the border into Turkey, and now suffer severe humanitarian conditions according to eyewitnesses.
IS militants capture Kurdish civilians near Kobane - ARA News
