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Internal Security Forces arrested two men Tuesday in eastern Lebanon for conning people with their sorcery business.
A statement said the ISF was able to track and arrest the so-called mastermind behind the sorcery business, who was identified by the initials S.N. He was apprehended along with his aide in the eastern town of Barr Elias.
The ISF said the two men would take money from people promising to use magic to solve their personal problems.
The two men have been referred to a court for further investigation

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Feb-16/337563-lebanon...

On 11 Dec 15, ISF arrested a suspect in Bar Elias in the killing of a man whose corpse was found from the day before. The statement said police intelligence arrested a Syrian national before he managed to escape to Syria. He confessed to the killing for financial purposes, with the help of four Syrian nationals.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Dec-11/326953-police-...

Three armed men robbed a Syrian national at gunpoint after stopping his car in the neighborhood of Bar Elias in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley, and slightly injured a policeman in the chase, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday .
The assailants were driving a silver Grand Cherokee when they intercepted on the Bar Elias road the vehicle of Haitham Mohammed al-Nowaylati who had two other passengers in his car, and forced them to the ground.
The gunmen stole $5400 in cash in addition to the 4WD Audi that Nowaylati was driving and fled to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, a patrol of the Intelligence Branch happened to pass by the scene of the incident where the victims relayed the story.
The police kicked off a chase behind the two cars that started on the Zahle highway all the way to the Ablah road.
An exchange of fire compelled the suspects to leave the stolen Audi, broken from the shooting, in the town of Ablah near an army checkpoint to continue their escape using the other vehicle.
But the police continued the gunned chase to later find the Cherokee deserted on a subsidiary road before the al-Litani bridge showing traces of blood inside.
The shooting slightly injured a member of the police.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/196220-gunmen-rob-a-syrian-injure-a-p...

On 21 June 15, roads in Qasqas, al-Naameh, Tariq el-Jdideh, Corniche al-Mazraa were briefly blocked in both directions to protest the torture of inmates in Roumieh prison. http://www.lebanondebate.com/details.aspx?id=208307 http://www.lebanondebate.com/details.aspx?id=208340

In the Bekaa, residents of the town of Saadnayel blocked the road linking their town to neighboring Taalbaya in both directions. Meanwhile, LBCI television said "families of Islamist prisoners have started to gather at al-Nour Square (in the northern city of Tripoli) to protest the torture of prisoners in Roumieh. LAF reopened al-Abdeh roundabout after it was briefly blocked with burning tires by young men from the Akkar town of Bebnin, NNA said.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/182700-rifi-mashnouq-vow-to-punish-cu...
NNA - The roads of Saadnayel, Taalbaya and Bar Elias were reopened on Monday morning after the tension that was caused by the video of the torture of prisoners in Roumieh prison, NNA field reporter said. http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/45718/Saadnayel-Taalbaya-Bar-Elias-re...

On 22 May 15, The Lebanese Armed Forces Intelligence unit detained two men linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley. Abdul Nabi Roumiyeh and his son were detained in Bar Elias area. Twenty-two cell phones and two computers in their possession were seized.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/179731-army-detains-two-for-belonging...

On 11 May 15, in Bar Elias, three children were killed when a fire broke out in a room they were playing in, at the roof of a building used for storing wood.
http://www.lebanonfiles.com/news/882003

On 22 Apr 15, unidentified persons riding a car shot to death a Lebanese national in front of Hariri dispensary on Taanayel - Barr Elias road.

http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/43283/Person-shot-dead-on-Taanayel-Ba...

NNA - Yarmouk Palestinians must remain united in the face of NOSRA and ISIL, Popular Committee member Ahmad Shehadeh, told a Palestinian sit-in in Bar Elias today.
The anti-NOSRA/ISIL sit-in at Bar Elias Red Crescent Society comprised mainstream PLO organization representatives and a number of Syrian Palestinians displaced from Yarmouk by infighting between pro-Assad and ISIL militias.
Taking the word, Fath boss in Lebanon Nidal Azzam, while professing strict neutrality in the ongoing conflict, implored the UN and international community to work hard for saving and safeguarding the embattled residents of al-Yarmouk refugee camp.
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/42826/Shehadeh-Unite-in-the-face-of-N...

The bodies of the two Syrian girls Aya (born in 2009) and her sister Hala (born in 2010) were transferred on Friday-Saturday midnight to Hilal (croissant) Palestinian Hospital in Bar Elias, National News Agency correspondent in Zahleh reported.

The field reporter added that the two girls asphyxiated when fire broke out inside their home in Bar Elias.

He noted that the cause of the fire most probably was a candle lit inside their house.

http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/37825/Two-Syrian-girls-killed-in-...