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| Charges filed against 4 Hezbollah members for carrying arms and missiles |
| 2026-03-17 |
| [AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Claude Ghanem, on Monday filed charges against four more Hezbollah members for possessing and transporting military weapons, media reports said. Two of them had been arrested in Ashrafieh, where guns and rifles were found inside their car. According to initial investigations, they were heading south, Al-Jadeed TV said. The two other members were also indicted on felony charges after an army search at a checkpoint in the southern town of Kfarhouna revealed the presence of weapons and 21 122mm rockets inside a van they were traveling in, which was also heading toward the southern border, Al-Jadeed added. Lebanese authorities have been seeking to pressure Hezbollah after Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when the Tehran-backed group's attack on Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes. A judicial official told AFP that the judge has referred the case "to the first investigating judge in Beirut... requesting they be questioned and arrest warrants issued." Related: Ashrafieh: 2026-01-18 Betrayed and Cornered: How the U.S. Abandoned Syria’s Kurds While Damascus Offers Paper Guarantees Ashrafieh: 2026-01-11 Syrian Army (former HTS) carried out night-time attacks against Kurdish Internal Security Forces in Sheikh Maqsoud, pacifying with tanks and artillery Ashrafieh: 2026-01-08 Aleppo’s SDF Enclave Becomes a Test of Damascus’ 'Integration by Pressure' Strategy |
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