2015 in Lebanon
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The following lists events that happened in2015in theLebanese Republic.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 5 January – Lebanon implements stricter immigration rules on itsSyrianborder in response to the refugee crisis caused by theSyrian Civil War.[1]
- 10 January – A suicide attack byal-Nusra Frontat a café in Tripoli kills at least seven people.[2]
- 24 January –Islamic State groupkills eight Lebanese soldiers in the northeastern Lebanese village ofRas Baalbek.[3]
- 27 January – Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of SyriaBashar al-Assadare responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort.[4]
- 28 January – Following a January 18 airstrike against a Hezbollah convoy, Hezbollah targets an Israeli military convoy near the Lebanon border at the Shebaa farms area, killing two and wounding another seven. While the Israeli military responds with artillery fire upon several South Lebanon border villages and Shebaa Farms, Hezbollah responds with mortar shells. Cross fire fighting kills a Spanish UN peacekeeper in the town of Ghajar.[5]
Deaths
[edit]1 January –Omar Karami,politician (born 1934)
References
[edit]- ^"Lebanon implements new controls at Syrian border".Reuters.5 January 2015.Retrieved7 January2015.
- ^"Suicide attack at Lebanese cafe kills at least seven".Reuters.10 January 2015.Retrieved11 January2015.
- ^"Official says 8 Lebanese troops killed fighting militants".Associated Press.24 January 2015.
- ^"Netanyahu says Israel will defend itself amid rockets attack from Syria".28 January 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 30 January 2015.Retrieved1 February2015.
- ^"Three killed as Israel and Hezbollah clash on Lebanese border".BBC.28 January 2015.Retrieved1 February2015.