November 11, 2026
The ongoing investigations in Lebanon continue to uncover the circumstances of the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani, amid ongoing questions surrounding the circumstances of his being lured to the apartment that witnessed the crime, the parties behind it, and the real motives behind his killing.
In a new intelligence development, the mediator who secured Al-Alwani’s residential apartment was summoned, at the request of the two Lebanese young men who appeared in the video clips related to the crime, a step that is expected to lead to additional information about the mechanism for arranging the victim’s presence in the place and the entities that secured his residence.
Accounts about the background of the crime conflict between political and criminal hypotheses, at a time when no decisive official data has yet been issued that determines the motives or definitively reveals the identity of all those involved.
In this context, journalist Amin Nasser reported that there has been no new development in the issue, whether in Iraq or Lebanon, since two o’clock in the morning today, except for the statement of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in which he stressed in general the necessity of establishing security and imposing state authority on everyone.
Nasser explained that Al-Alwani was sentenced to five death sentences in Iraq against the backdrop of cases related to the killing of Iraqi army officers, before he benefited from the amnesty, pointing out the presence of the sectarian dimension in the accusations leveled by Al-Alwani’s brother and cousin against Hezbollah.
Nasser stressed that the circumstances of the crime are still mysterious, calling for waiting for the results of the investigations and procedures undertaken by the Lebanese security services, expressing his great confidence in the state security and intelligence agencies and the security forces concerned with collecting information to uncover the truth about what happened.
Regarding the reasons for Alwani’s presence in Lebanon, Nasser indicated that this matter is still unknown, pointing to Alwani’s wife’s statement that a leading Sunni Arab figure asked him to go immediately to Beirut, raising questions about the motives for his return to the forefront at this sensitive time and despite the well-known security conditions in Lebanon.
Nasser pointed out that the video clips show Alwani getting on the elevator and heading to the apartment in a normal position and without clear indications that he was forcefully kidnapped. Regarding the people who appeared with him in the recordings, he explained that the security services were the ones who published those videos, and they are the authority authorized to determine their identities and their previous relationship with him as part of the investigations.
Nasser expected that the Lebanese security services, in coordination with their Iraqi counterparts, would issue a detailed report within about 72 hours, containing the data and results related to the case and contributing to fully clarifying its circumstances.
