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Conflict Incident Report

Explosives found in Arsal

Date of incident: 
August 3, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Military Intelligence

وطنية - صدر عن قيادة الجيش - مديرية التوجيه البيان الآتي: "بتاريخه الساعة 10.00، ضبطت دورية تابعة لمديرية المخابرات بالقرب من مبنى بلدية عرسال، جسما مشبوها عبارة عن كيس مموه بالطين. وبعد الكشف عليه من قبل الخبير العسكري المختص، تبين أنه يحتوي على 4 عبوات زنة 10.7 كلغ غير معدة للتفجير، حيث تم نقلها وتفكيكها".

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Dismantlement of Explosives/Demining
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.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Border conflicts (Syrian border)
Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.