Nine Lebanese held in Syria freed: Lebanese minister

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Nine Lebanese citizens held in Syria since May 2012 have been released, Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told Reuters on Friday. Eleven Lebanese Shi'ites were seized last year by a Syrian rebel group while on their way home from a pilgrimage to Shi'ite religious sites in Iran, their families said. Two were later released. "The story is over," Charbel said. "In the ...