By Mona Helmi - english.aawsat.com

Tripoli has been linked over the past years with conservative movements and many extremist cells that were dismantled in northern regions like Akkar and Daniye. The Islamic scene in the city has long been influenced by the local complicated politics and the adversity toward al-Assad regime, which led to many terroristic attacks against the so-called Hezbollah that supports Assad’s troops in Syria.

Speaking about the conservative Islamic movements in Lebanon, Dr. Abdul Ghani Imad, expert in Islamic movements’ affairs explains that Sheikh Salem al-Shahhal established the first conservative Islamic group during the forties. His movement was missionary and aimed to amend the wrong practices of Muslims. On the political side, Shahhal didn’t have a clear position. He stood for the parliamentary elections in 1972, but he withdrew in favor of the “Jamaa Islamiya” (Islamic Group).

Many other extremist schools emerged in the region, like the school of Salem el-Rafei, who was among the first voices calling for “Jihad” in Syria, Bilal Dekmak , Sheikh Nabil Raheem or Sheikh Mohammad Khidr, along with radical Islamic movements like “Al-Tawhid” (Islamic Unification Movement) established by Sheikh Saeed Shaaban.

By sarah el deeb, associated press

A prominent dual British-Lebanese journalist who hosted a talk show critical of the government of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi arrived in Beirut on Tuesday after authorities in Cairo briefly detained her and then deported her, her lawyer said.

Lilian Daoud, a former BBC reporter, could not immediately be reached for comment. Her lawyer, Zyad el-Elaimy, wrote on his Twitter account that her first comment after landing in Beirut was that she will challenge the decision to deport her.

There was no formal explanation for Daoud's deportation from Egypt. An Egyptian security official, speaking Monday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said Daoud's residency permit expired after her contract with the private ONTV station in Egypt was terminated.

"It's the first time someone is deported in this fashion in Egypt," el-Elaimy told The Associated Press, speaking by telephone from Cairo. He said even criminals are asked to leave, not taken from their homes.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese troops detained 103 Syrians for illegal entry into the country in a security sweep Tuesday, a day after a series of deadly bombings struck a village near the Syrian border, the military said.

The government warned of a mounting challenge in tiny Lebanon, which abuts the war-torn Syria, underlining the magnitude of Monday's attack that saw nine bombings, eight of them from suicide attackers, strike in the small Christian village of Qaa, killing five people.

"The attack on the Lebanese national security and the unfamiliar manner in which it was executed usher in a new kind of phase in the state's confrontation with the dark forces of terrorism," a Cabinet statement said.

The bombings triggered fear and panic among Qaa's residents and a deepening sense of foreboding in Lebanon, which has grappled for over five years with spillovers from Syria's civil war.

By Reuters:  Eight suicide bombers attacked a Lebanese Christian village on Monday, killing five people and wounding dozens more, in the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon. Security sources said they believed Islamic State was responsible for the bombings in the village of Qaa on Lebanon's border with Syria, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

A first wave of attacks involved four suicide bombers who struck after 4 a.m., killing five people, all civilians.  The first bomber blew himself up after being confronted by a resident, with the other three detonating their bombs one after the other as people arrived at the scene. The Lebanese army said four soldiers were among the wounded.

A second series of attacks, involving at least four bombers, took place in the evening as residents were preparing the funerals of those killed earlier. Two of the four bombers blew themselves up outside a church, security sources said. Nobody was killed. Medics put the number of injured at 15. "It is clear from the pace of explosions that we have entered an episode from hell," Wael Abu Faour, the health minister, told Reuters.