{"id":22396,"date":"2019-04-28T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=22396"},"modified":"2019-04-28T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:46:51","slug":"lebanese-army-to-completely-control-borders-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=22396","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Army To Completely Control Borders With Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 28 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; British diplomatic sources in Beirut, said that, Lebanese Armed Forces will have complete control over its borders with Syria in 2019, local newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Lebanese Armed Forces have improved their capabilities over the past 10 years, which turned them into a professional army able to protect Lebanon against terrorism, on the borders and inside Lebanon,&#8221; the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sources added that, Britain has offered, since 2012, a programme to train and equip the four land border forces of the Lebanese army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This programme aims at allowing the Lebanese Armed Forces to have complete control over their country&#8217;s borders with Syria, to prevent any illegal operations through the borders,&#8221; according to the sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also noted that Britain has trained around 11,000 soldiers for military operations in populated areas, and 7,000 on the borders.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 28 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; British diplomatic sources in Beirut, said that, Lebanese Armed Forces will have complete control over its borders with Syria in 2019, local newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported. &#8220;The Lebanese Armed Forces have improved their capabilities over the past 10 years, which turned them into a professional army able to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}