US security envoy tours Lebanon’s ISF

BEIRUT — US Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, Gentry Smith, on Saturday toured an Internal Security Forces facility as part of his trip to Beirut.Here’s what we know:    • In a tweet, the ISF posted a video of Smith’s visit to the Wissam al-Hassan barracks in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, where he attended a conference and inspected equipment.!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");    • The ISF has come under criticism from Human Rights Watch for “multiple failures, gross negligence, and procedural violations in four politically sensitive murder investigations in the past two years.”  ...