Agents & spy networks
20 events
- June 1979Founding of the "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners"After the Nahariya operation in April 1979 the Israeli chief of staff Rafael Eitan ordered the Northern Command chief…
- 26 May 2006Assassination of the Majzoub brothersOn 26 May 2006 the Islamic Jihad leaders Mahmoud and Nidal al-Majzoub were assassinated by a car bomb in Sidon. The…
- 10 June 2006The Mahmoud Rafeh network exposed: a Mossad cell behind assassinations since 1999On 10 June 2006, after the assassination of the Majzoub brothers, the Lebanese army arrested Mahmoud Rafeh and members…
- 11 April 2009The wave of Israeli spy-ring arrestsThe Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces arrested the retired brigadier Adib al-Alam in the Dekwaneh…
- June 2010Arrest of Charbel Qazzi at Alfa: Israel inside the mobile networkIn late June 2010 the Lebanese army arrested Charbel Qazzi, head of the transmission and maintenance department at the…
- August 2010General Fayez Karam arrested on charges of collaborating with Israel
- 2 December 2010WikiLeaks cables: Elias Murr advises Israel via the US ambassadorAt the start of December 2010 "al-Akhbar" published cables of the American embassy in Beirut obtained from WikiLeaks,…
- 24 June 2011Nasrallah: two members recruited by the CIA; the embassy a "den of spies"On 24 June 2011 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced the uncovering of three spies inside the party, two of them recruited…
- 9 November 2015General Security detains two Lebanese and a Syrian for spying for Israel
- 7 October 2017State Security arrests three Mossad collaborators in Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath al-Jebbeh and Deir Qanoun
- 14 January 2018Car bomb against Hamas cadre Mohammad Hamdan in Sidon; Ahmad Baytiyeh arrested
- 30 January 2018"Rise and Kill First" reveals Israel ran the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from ForeignersIn January 2018 the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman published his book "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of…
- 13 November 2018Army intelligence detains Mohammad Hussein Fakih trying to cross to Israel
- 12 September 2019Arrest of Amer Fakhoury, former Khiam prison warden, after his return to LebanonIn September 2019 Amer Fakhoury, the former official at Lahd's army's Khiam prison and a holder of American…
- October 2019General Security arrests Lebanese-Canadian Tabet Tabet at the airport on Mossad spying charges
- 19 March 2020Collaborator Amer Fakhoury freed and flown out by US helicopter
- 31 January 2022Seventeen Israeli spy networks dismantled: the largest operation since 2009On 31 January 2022 the interior minister Bassam Mawlawi informed the cabinet that the Information Branch of the…
- 24 February 2022General Security detains a "veteran" spy in Sidon suspected of a role in the Majzoub assassination
- 9 October 2024The army arrests two Syrians recruited by Israel to photograph strike sites
- November 2024Post-2024-war wave of collaborator arrests: 32 detained, 21 handed over by HezbollahWith the ceasefire of 27 November 2024 the pursuit of those suspected of dealing with Israel accelerated: six were…