Ministers Hint Hostages File Nearing Completion
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Tammam Salam is set to preside a meeting of the ministerial committee tasked with following up the case of Lebanese hostages as a last step before their expected release.
Ministerial sources told An Nahar daily published on Monday that the Lebanese authorities have completed the file of the prisoner exchange.
They confirmed reports that Lebanon is set to release 16 prisoners, including three women, in return for being handed over the 16 servicemen who were taken hostage by al-Nusra Front fighters last year.
Al-Nusra and Islamic State group jihadists took soldiers and policemen captive when they overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in August 2014.
While the negotiations with al-Nusra through a mediator from Qatar have made a headway, the talks with the IS have reached a standstill over their crippling demands.
The sources told An Nahar that Lebanese authorities are awaiting the mediator’s next step to see when the expected prisoner exchange would take place.
The families of the soldiers and police hostages have blocked roads in several areas in a bid to pressure the government to secure the release of their relatives.
22 June 2015, 09:05
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Cmon Nahar just one only one article about your financiers the Saudi wiki leaks or is that too taboo for u? How about 1 article how lady Gaga was been bought and sold like a cheap whore to the highest Saudi bidder lol! So sad ...You can run but eventually you all will face the music :)
22 June 2015, 13:28
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I sow her, Lady Gaga, with my daughter, she is something different, with people dressed in cans and police ribbons, Felt an alien, but she put a strange but nice show, about, KSA, yes, what about them, people ary happy here fir low gas prices, fracking industries are melting and hate the fact they are loosing the competition, for now.
22 June 2015, 21:35
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This headline has been written on Naharnet 40 times in the past year!!
