Lebanon Opens Investigation Into Syrian Militia Leader’s Abduction and Transfer to Syria
Syrian authorities say the arrest follows a joint intelligence operation and comes less than two weeks after the detention of his deputy, Jamal Traboulsi.
- On Thursday, Syrian authorities announced the arrest in Lebanon of paramilitary leader Mihrac Ural, also known as Ali Kayali, who is accused of orchestrating massacres during the civil war.
- Ural led the "Syrian Resistance," a paramilitary group that backed late leader Bashar al-Assad, and is suspected of planning the 2013 Reyhanli car bombings that killed 53 people.
- The arrest occurred less than two weeks after Jamal Traboulsi, identified as Ural's deputy, was captured, and resulted from a "joint operation" between Syrian intelligence and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization.
- Interior Minister Anas Khattab said on X, "The criminal Mihrac Ural is now where he should be," while Ahmad Zeydan, a media adviser to President Ahmad al-Sharaa, warned, "Every murderous criminal will be hunted down."
- Amid conflicting accounts, a security source told al-Modon that Ural was arrested in the Bekaa to "coordinate his activities," as Syria's new Islamist authorities continue arresting former Assad security officials.
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Two contradictory accounts of the arrest of Ma ' raj Ural, reported by the French Press Agency, one from a Syrian security source who confirmed coordination with Beirut on his arrest and the other from a Lebanese security source who denied Beirut ' s knowledge of the arrest.
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Lebanon opens investigation into Syrian militia leader’s abduction and transfer to Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities were investigating how a former Syrian militia commander suspected of committing crimes during the government of ousted President Bashar Assad was abducted in Lebanon and
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Lebanon opens investigation into Syrian militia leader's abduction and transfer to Syria
Lebanese authorities are investigating how a former Syrian militia commander was kidnapped in Lebanon and taken to Syria.
The transfer from Lebanon to Syria of Ali Kiali, known as Ma ' arag Ural, in a kidnapping operation whose circumstances are still being questioned, raised legal controversy about who had the right to be tried first, in pursuit of files linked to crimes committed against him in Syria and Turkey. Between Damascus, which is accused of engaging in massacres of civilians on its territory, and Ankara, which is stalking him on [...] The post Ali K…
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