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Conflict Incident Report

Army conducts patrols in Baalbeck to maintain security

Date of incident: 
June 21, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)

Lebanese Army units have been patrolling the city of Baalbek and setting up mobile checkpoints across it and within the vicinity of Ras al-Ain parks in an attempt to maintain security in the city and its environs, the NNA correspondent said.

Preparations are underway for a wide-scale security operation in the Baalbeck-Hermel province, to be launched “within hours or days,” a Lebanese Army source said.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Military/Security Forces Deployment
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.