Lebanon has expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers who crossed into the country illegally via informal routes.
A Lebanese security official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that these individuals were returned to Syria through Lebanon’s northern Arida crossing.
Upon their return, they were detained by Syria’s new ruling authorities, who have been conducting a major security crackdown on remnants of the Assad regime.
The expelled officers and soldiers were found in a truck in the northern coastal city of Jbeil after an inspection by local officials.
Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi recently mentioned that several senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family of Bashar al-Assad had fled to Lebanon after Assad’s regime was toppled on December 8.
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