2015 in Lebanon

none thumb | right | Alessandro Saginaw in Beirut -2015 2015 January 2023 The following lists events that happened in 2015 in the Lebanese Republic. Incumbents President: Tammam Salam (acting) Prime Minister: Tammam Salam Events January 5 January – Lebanon implements stricter immigration rules on its Syrian border in response to the refugee crisis caused by the Syrian Civil War.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-lebanon-refugees-idUSKBN0KE10C20150105 Lebanon implements new controls at Syrian border Reuters 5 January 2015 7 January 2015 10 January – A suicide attack by al-Nusra Front at a café in Tripoli kills at least seven people.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-attack-idUSKBN0KJ0ML20150110 Suicide attack at Lebanese cafe kills at least seven Reuters 10 January 2015 11 January 2015 24 January – Islamic State group kills eight Lebanese soldiers in the northeastern Lebanese village of Ras Baalbek. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/58f423fa4a2c47e080237e0593be66f1/official-says-8-lebanese-troops-killed-fighting-militants Official says 8 Lebanese troops killed fighting militants 24 January 2015 Associated Press 27 January – Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort.http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2015-01/28/c_127428713.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150130002556/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2015-01/28/c_127428713.htm dead 30 January 2015 Netanyahu says Israel will defend itself amid rockets attack from Syria 28 January 2015 1 February 2015 28 January – Following a January 18 airstrike against a Hezbollah convoy, Hezbollah targets an Israeli military convoy near the Lebanon border at the Shebaa farms area, killing two and wounding another seven. While the Israeli military responds with artillery fire upon several South Lebanon border villages and Shebaa Farms, Hezbollah responds with mortar shells. Cross fire fighting kills a Spanish UN peacekeeper in the town of Ghajar.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31015862 Three killed as Israel and Hezbollah clash on Lebanese border BBC 28 January 2015 1 February 2015 Deaths 1 January – Omar Karami, politician (born 1934) References 2015 Lebanon Category:2010s in Lebanon Category:Years of the 21st century in Lebanon Lebanon