Lebanese Army Command's Guidance Directorate on Tuesday issued a statement saying that at around 12:00 pm yesterday a fatal explosion broke out in the American Square in Sidon inside a BMW car driven by the senior official of Fatah Movement in Miyewmiyeh camp, Fathi Zaydan.
A car bomb goes off near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, killing at least one person and injuring two others.
A supporter of firebrand preacher Ahmad Assir was killed in a suicide bombing operation in Iraq over the weekend and Also British ISIS fighter named Abu Musa al-Britani participated in another suicide blast in same day.
Lebanese radical Salafi sheikh, Ahmad al-Assir, has been appointed as head of the terrorist al-Nusra Front group in Lebanon, media reports say.
The Lebanese army announced a state of alert across Sidon on Monday, a day after two attacks upon checkpoints in the southern city left a soldier and four assailants dead.
Suspects in the deadly overnight attack on the Lebanese Army in south Lebanon likely had links to both Salafi-labelled Sheikh Ahmad Assir and al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front.
An increase in Palestinian refugee students from Syria is likely to overwhelm schools in Sidon’s refugee camps of Ain al-Hilweh and Mieh Mieh, which are already struggling to accommodate more than 10,000 local Palestinian students.
Lebanon is observing a day of national mourning on June 25 to pay respect to over a dozen army soldiers killed in the recent battle with armed Takfiris in the country’s south.
Firebrand Salafist sheikh Ahmed al-Assir has reportedly been wounded in clashes with the Lebanese army in the country’s south.
Clashes have erupted between the Lebanese army troops and Takfiri followers of radical Salafist sheikh Ahmed al-Assir in southern Lebanon.
One Lebanese citizen has been killed in clashes between Takfiri Salafists in Lebanon’s Sidon and some of the southern city’s residents, al-Alam reports.