...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...have washed up on a Syrian beach and a probe is underway to determine how they drowned, a Lebanese security official said Sunday.
I would assume the air in their lungs was replaced with water, but I'm not a Lebanese Security Official
The sisters went missing from a village in northern Lebanon on Monday, said the official, adding that Syrian authorities found their bodies on Friday.
Their bodies had likely been transported by the current north into Syrian waters, he added.
State news agency SANA said the Lebanese Foreign Ministry had reached out to authorities in Damascus "to verify their identity".
The Syrian Interior Ministry said Saturday it had found "three young women appearing to be in their twenties or thirties" washed up on a beach in the coastal port city of Tartus.
A forensic examination determined they had drowned three days earlier, the ministry said.
But it was not immediately clear how they ended up in the sea, AFP quoted a Lebanese official as saying.
The family of the sisters was being interrogated in Lebanon as part of a probe into their deaths, with possible explanations including attempted migration or "suicide", a security source said.
In recent months, dozens of Lebanese have boarded unsafe dinghies in a bid to flee rising poverty in Lebanon by sea, several not surviving the journey.