Lebanon's military tribunal on Friday officially accused Syrian regime officers of involvement in the 2013 twin bombings that targeted mosques during crowded Friday prayers, in the Sunni-majority city of Tripoli , North Lebanon.

Judge Alaa Khatib of the tribunal named Syrian intelligence officers Mohammad Ali Ali from the notorious Palestine Branch and Nasser Joubeen from the Political Security Directorate, according to Lebanon's state-owned National News Agency.



Tripoli's residents are known for their hostility to the Syrian regime, which occupied the city during Lebanon's own civil war, and have supplied fighters to the Syrian rebellion on the side of the Free Syrian Army as well as jihadist groups.