📰 3 sources 4 articles · 13 Oct 2026, 16:54 → 3 days ago

Lebanon: Investigation into Dahra El Baidar Explosives Expanded, Calls to Refer File to Judicial Council

The story covers the seizure of an explosives shipment at the Dahra El Baidar checkpoint in Lebanon and Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar's announcement of an expanded investigation, alongside President Joseph Aoun's instructions to expedite the investigations into it and into a second shipment coming from Syria. Lebanese Forces ministers are expected to request at the cabinet session that the explosives file be referred to the Judicial Council.

📍 Where things stand: The investigation into the explosives seized at Dahra El Baidar remains open and expanding, with attention on the cabinet session at which the Lebanese Forces ministers will request that the file be referred to the Judicial Council.

⏱️ Timeline

13 Oct 2026, 16:54 Interior and Municipalities Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar, after chairing the Central Internal Security Council meeting, announced that the investigation into the explosives seized at the Dahra El Baidar checkpoint will be completed until all its circumstances are uncovered and anyone proven involved is held accountable, and that Lebanese Army Intelligence and the Information Division of the Internal Security Forces will expand the investigation at the request of the Cassation Public Prosecution, praising the vigilance of the checkpoint personnel who seized a car.
13 Oct 2026, 19:10 The Internal Security Forces seized a truck loaded with hundreds of kilograms of explosives in the Dahra El Baidar area while it was being moved from the Bekaa to Beirut, and arrested two people on board, in one of a series of seizures announced by the Lebanese Army during October that included about 245 kilograms of TNT coming from Syria and another 200 kilograms at the Syrian border. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam pledged to expand the investigation and hold all those involved accountable.
14 Oct 2026, 06:22 Special information indicated that President Joseph Aoun gave strict instructions to all security and judicial leaders to expedite the investigations into an explosives shipment seized in Dahra El Baidar and a second shipment that followed coming from Syria, and asked that the results be announced to the public once completed, considering what happened an attempt to strike stability.
14 Oct 2026, 21:24 It was learned that the Lebanese Forces ministers will request at the cabinet session to be held tomorrow that the file of the explosives seized with two Hezbollah members be referred to the Judicial Council, given its gravity.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

⚠️ Sources disagree

Type of the seized vehicle

a car according to Lebanon Debate
a truck loaded with hundreds of kilograms of explosives according to الجزيرة نت

Identity of those detained with the shipment

arrested two people who were on board according to الجزيرة نت
the explosives seized with two Hezbollah members according to MTV Lebanon

Figures as each outlet reported them at the time. We do not judge which is correct; numbers often change as events develop.

How the sources covered it

Coverage ranged from a focus on the interior minister's statements and the security-judicial investigation track (Lebanon Debate), to the details of the seizure, the figures of the series of seizures and the prime minister's pledge (Al Jazeera Net), to presidential instructions and the political demand to refer the file to the Judicial Council (MTV Lebanon).

Lebanon Debate Focused on Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar's statements after he chaired the Central Internal Security Council, leading with the pledge that the investigation would be completed and that Army Intelligence and the Information Division would expand it at the request of the Cassation Public Prosecution, and highlighting the vigilance of the checkpoint personnel, without mentioning figures for the amount of explosives, arrests, or the prime minister's position.
الجزيرة نت Provided the field details of the seizure — a truck loaded with hundreds of kilograms while moving from the Bekaa to Beirut and the arrest of two people — placed it in the context of a series of seizures announced by the Lebanese Army in October with their figures (about 245 kg of TNT from Syria and 200 kg at the Syrian border), and highlighted Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's pledge to expand the investigation and hold those involved accountable.
MTV Lebanon Focused on top-level political moves: President Joseph Aoun's strict instructions to security and judicial leaders to expedite the investigation into the Dahra El Baidar shipment and a second shipment from Syria and his request that results be announced to the public, and the Lebanese Forces ministers' intention to request referring the file of the explosives seized with two Hezbollah members to the Judicial Council.

AI comparison of what each outlet emphasized. It describes emphasis, not accuracy.

Lebanon Debateالجزيرة نتMTV Lebanon

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Strict instructions from President Aoun on the explosives file

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الجزيرة نت 19:10

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