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Conflict Incident Report

General Security: Arresting Syrian for terrorist tasks in Lebanon

Date of incident: 
December 6, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
General Security
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

Directorate General of General Security announced that a Syrian individual was arrested on the background of having links to terrorist sides in the country.
Upon investigations with him the individual admitted his links and his accomplice in the suicidal dual explosion that hit Burj Al Barajena on November 12, 2015, and another explosion in Dimas Yaafour in Syria.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
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.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
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.