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LAF unit detains 11 suspects in the border town of Arsal

04-12-2014 | 08:57

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A Lebanese Armed Forces unit raided Wednesday areas deemed suspicious in the border town of Arsal and arrested 11 persons, the Army Command- Orientation Directorate said on Thursday (December 04).

This comes as the army is pursuing fugitives suspected of attacking LAF soldiers and belonging to terrorist organizations.

A patrol of the LAF Intelligence Directorate also detained a man in the Donnieh town on suspicion of communicating with fugitives, the Army Command said.

It added that the detainees were referred to the concerned authorities and investigations were launched in this regard.

Gunmen killed six Lebanese soldiers when they attacked an army patrol near the border with Syria on Tuesday (December 02), the army and a Lebanese security source said.

The source said the gunmen crossed from Syria to the mountainous border town of Ras Baalbek after dark and ambushed the patrol.

Clashes between gunmen and a special army unit erupted after the attack and the army was able to retrieve the bodies of six of its soldiers.

The assault occurred on the day Lebanese security sources said that a wife and one of the daughters of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the ultra-hardline group Islamic State, were detained in the country as they crossed from Syria.

Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.

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