(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's army killed two Syrian refugees and arrested 11 in the town of Arsal near the border with Syria on Wednesday in what it claimed a raid on Islamic State cells, residents told Zaman al-Wasl.
The Lebanese army has killed a man and his wife who fled the town of Qara in rural Damascus. Their bodies were kept by the army, fellow refugees said.
The army said in statement it had killed six gunmen and arrested 16 suspected militants, including a commander from the Islamic State group, according to Reuters.
It had originally detained 27 people but has released 11 who were not related to the cell, source said.
The army said soldiers carried out a special operation against what it called a 'terrorist' cell that was planning to attack army posts and kidnap people in Arsal.
Another army unit stormed an IS-run field hospital in the same area and detained 16 militants, it said, including a man named Ahmad Noun who was described as a "dangerous terrorist".
A security source told Reuters that the army had arrested Abu Bakr al-Raqqawi, a local commander of the Islamic State group, and three high profile insurgents. It was not immediately clear if Raqqawi was Noun's nom de guerre.
The Lebanese army has killed a man and his wife who fled the town of Qara in rural Damascus. Their bodies were kept by the army, fellow refugees said.
The army said in statement it had killed six gunmen and arrested 16 suspected militants, including a commander from the Islamic State group, according to Reuters.
It had originally detained 27 people but has released 11 who were not related to the cell, source said.
The army said soldiers carried out a special operation against what it called a 'terrorist' cell that was planning to attack army posts and kidnap people in Arsal.
Another army unit stormed an IS-run field hospital in the same area and detained 16 militants, it said, including a man named Ahmad Noun who was described as a "dangerous terrorist".
A security source told Reuters that the army had arrested Abu Bakr al-Raqqawi, a local commander of the Islamic State group, and three high profile insurgents. It was not immediately clear if Raqqawi was Noun's nom de guerre.
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