Lebanese security forces have arrested a bodyguard of the hardline Salafist Skeikh Ahmad al-Assir at Beirut airport, according to Lebanese security sources.
Lebanon’s foreign minister has called on “influential parties” involved in Syrian crisis not to set any pre-condition for attending in the upcoming Geneva II conference.
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.