Ibrahim Visits Syria: Reports on Border Control Agreement

General Security Chief Abbas Ibrahim visited Syria on Sunday to offer condolences for the Syrian Mufti on his son's assassination last week.

The Mufti appreciated the condolences, and said that the Syrians are paying a high price on "our positions which support the resistance."

Ibrahim stressed that "the common enemy is the one who is targeting the innocents in Lebanon and Syria."

Ibrahim also met with the Syrian security leaders and discussed the incidents that have lately occurred on the Lebanese-Syrian borders.

According to Al-Manar TV, the discussion focused on controlling the borders and preventing smuggling.

General security chief Abbas Ibrahim pointed out that there is always coordination between Lebanon and Syria.

Last Friday, Syrian troops infiltrated the outskirts of Arsal village in Bekaa and shot dead a Syrian national living there, a security official told Agence France Presse.

This incident comes after two Syrian BTR-type armored personnel carriers along with a pickup carrying Syrian soldiers crossed the border in the area of Kherbet Daoud near Arsal on Tuesday.

The soldiers raided the homes of brothers Zahri and Abdel Aziz al-Jabawi randomly firing from their machineguns. They later returned to the location where they came from.