A double suicide attack targeted on Tuesday, November 19 the Iranian embassy in south Beirut’s Bir el-Hassan region, killing at least 23 people, wounding 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.
The Abdullah Azzam brigades, a Lebanon-based al Qaeda affiliate, said it was behind a double suicide attack on the Iranian embassy.
"The group that is affiliated with the brigade was escorted by Abou Hasan al-Felastiny," the same sources said, adding that all of them were killed in a shell fired by the army towards them.
Abou Hasan al-Felastiny, the emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), initiated the attack on the northeastern town of Arsal, and succumbed to wounds he sustained during the battles.
He reportedly led an Islamist assault on the Lebanese army in Arsal after the arrest of al-Nusra Front official Imad Jomaa who is accused of kidnapping leading around 100 fighters and the Fajr al-Islam brigade.
20 Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers have been killed and at least 28 other Internal Security Forces and LAF soldiers remain missing in the wake of deadly clashes that erupted in the northeastern border town of Arsal on August 1.
Clashes flared up when Syrian gunmen deployed across the region after the Lebanese Armed Forces arrested Syrian national Imad Ahmad Jomaa at a checkpoint.
On Thursday (August 07), a military source stated that a truce in Arsal appeared to be holding and the situation in the border town was quiet. The sources said LAF troops were combing the area in eastern Lebanon to see if gunmen were withdrawing under the terms of the truce.
Lebanese security officials say the fighters include members of al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, and an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State, which has seized swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.