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On 8 March 2017, the Lebanese government appointed Joseph Aoun commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces, replacing Jean Kahwaji. [ 4 ] In August 2017 he commanded the Jroud Dawn Operation which was an offensive against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria.
On 20 September 2024, Israel launched an air attack that leveled an apartment building in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. [2] The attack killed at least 45 people, including 16 Hezbollah militants, including commanders Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe. The other victims were civilians, including at least three children and seven women.
On 20 September 2024, an Israeli air strike in Dahieh in southern Beirut killed commander Ibrahim Aqil, head of the training unit and former commander Abu Hassan Samir, senior Radwan official Ahmed Wehbe, and 13 other Radwan Force commanders, who were at a meeting of Radwan Force leaders. [22] [23] [24]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country’s air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a ...
The Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (Arabic: قائد الجيش اللبناني) is responsible for the operational command of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). According to the Constitution, the President of Lebanon is the commander-in-chief. The commander always holds the General rank.
Hundreds of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday, hours after Israeli airstrikes killed a Hezbollah militant commander. The Israeli military said that about 215 ...
Ali Hussein Barji (Arabic: علي حسين برجي; allegedly died on 9 January 2024) was a Lebanese militant and the commander of Hezbollah's aerial forces in southern Lebanon. He was reportedly killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khirbet Selm , Lebanon, during the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) ,
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