The agency’s crucial post in Beirut is affected after the arrest of several informants this year, sources say. The CIA was forced to curtail its spying in Lebanon, where U.S. operatives and their agents collect crucial intelligence on Syria, terrorist groups and other targets, after the arrests of several CIA informants in Beirut this year, according to U.S. officials and other sources.

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Lebanese security forces say they have arrested an Egyptian national on suspicion of espionage for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

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In the past few weeks, 15 people have been arrested in Lebanon, accused of spying for Israel. Two of the suspects fled across the heavily fortified border into Israel to escape capture. Espionage carries the death penalty in the country that maintains a constant state of war with its neighbour. Al Jazeera’s Todd Baer reports from Beirut.

Lebanese police have confiscated equipment which they say was used by citizens accused of spying for Israel. A transmitter hidden inside an ice bucket and a table with a hidden compartment – high-tech gadgets which bear the fingerprints of a first-world spy service. The Lebanse say they have no doubt it is the work of Israeli Mossad. Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reports.