July 16th, 2026 - 01:24 GMT
ALBAWABA- Syrian authorities announced they had foiled an attempt to smuggle a large shipment of weapons allegedly destined for Hezbollah across the Syrian-Iraqi border, prompting Iraq to launch an investigation into the incident. The Syrian Interior Ministry said the weapons were concealed inside an oil tanker intercepted by security forces on July 7. According to the ministry, the driver was arrested and confessed during questioning that employees at the Al-Waleed ...
![An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281893.jpg?itok=IENNaC4V "An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]")
![Armed men roam a street in the western, mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, on January 4, 2014, as parts of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460527941.jpg?itok=D-_Cro0A "Armed men roam a street in the western, mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, on January 4, 2014, as parts of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah. [Getty Images]")
![Fighting began in the Ramadi area on December 30, 2013, when security forces removed the main anti-government protest camp set up after demonstrations broke out in late 2012 against what Sunni Arabs say is the marginalisation and targeting of their community. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460308769.jpg?itok=DMZ701As "Fighting began in the Ramadi area on December 30, 2013, when security forces removed the main anti-government protest camp set up after demonstrations broke out in late 2012 against what Sunni Arabs say is the marginalisation and targeting of their community. [AFP]")
![Men gather for the funeral of a person killed in fighting with Iraqi forces in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on December 31, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459810485.jpg?itok=IxNTcCTR "Men gather for the funeral of a person killed in fighting with Iraqi forces in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on December 31, 2013. [AFP]")
![Armed tribesmen and Iraqi police sit in a car as clashes rage on in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on January 2, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/000_Nic6280927.jpg?itok=SoUin5SK "Armed tribesmen and Iraqi police sit in a car as clashes rage on in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on January 2, 2014. [AFP]")
![Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/186572355.jpg?itok=QO8WyVWQ "Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki [Getty Images]")
