Syrian forces seize 'Hezbollah-bound' weapons

Syria’s new security authorities on Friday seized a weapons shipment that was intended to be smuggled into Lebanon through illegal border crossings, Syria’s new authorities said.

The shipment contained “weapons and rockets,” the authorities added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights for its part said authorities seized “a truck loaded with weapons and advanced ammunition that Hezbollah was storing in Syria during the period of its occupation of the border areas.”

“Today it tried to move them to Lebanon through the illegal border crossings in Tartus’ countryside,” the Observatory added, noting that “this is the second truck to be seized after another Hezbollah truck was confiscated two days ago while carrying arms and ammunition in Homs’ western countryside.”