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Daesh commander killed near border with Syria

Wednesday, 08 February 2017 10:23 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 08 February 2017 10:49 AM ]

In this file photo, Lebanese soldiers are deployed on a road at the entrance of Arsal town on the border with Syria. (By AFP)

Lebanese security authorities say a high-profile member of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has been killed in an explosion targeting his vehicle near the northeastern town of Arsal on the border with conflict-plagued Syria.

An unnamed security source told Beirut-based and English-language Daily Star that Ahmed Wahid al-Abed was killed on Tuesday as the explosion ripped through his vehicle on the outskirts of the town, located about 124 kilometers northeast of the capital Beirut.

The media bureau of Hezbollah resistance movement later announced in a tweet that the militant had been in charge of the so-called Daesh religious court.

On November 25, 2016, Lebanese military forces arrested senior Daesh militant commander Ahmad Youssef Ammoun, better known by his nom de guerre al-Sheikh, along with 10 other terrorists during a mop-up operation in the Wadi al-Araneb suburbs of Arsal.

The Lebanese army later announced in a statement that Ammoun was wanted for rigging vehicles with explosives and then detonating the car bombs in several areas across Lebanon, including Beirut’s southern neighborhoods.

On October 9, Lebanese security forces discovered the body of a high-ranking Daesh commander, identified as Abu Bakr al-Raqqawi, in Wadi Aata district of Arsal. He was purportedly behind the killing of a police officer, identified as First Sergeant Major Zaher Ezzedine, in the area last January.

The Lebanese army also detained Daesh militant commander Imad Yassine in Taware neighborhood of the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, near the southwestern port city of Sidon, on September 22, following fierce overnight clashes between Takfiri terrorists and members of the Palestinian Fatah movement there.

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