Bassil Urges Arab Foreign Ministers to Declare War against ISIL
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil proposed during the opening session of the Arab League Council of Foreign Ministers to “declare war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” ISIL.
Media reports said that Bassil, who is attending the Arab League meeting in Cairo, urged conferees to issue a decision under the slogan: “The Arab World Declares War on ISIL.”
The opening session's agenda includes the political and security developments in Palestine and Libya and Syrian.
It will also focus on ways to confront terrorism.
On Saturday, several pro-jihadist Twitter accounts published gruesome pictures apparently showing Islamic State militants beheading a second Lebanese army soldier, around ten days after the same group executed captive army sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
The so-called Qalamun branch of the Islamic State also published a statement confirming the execution of 20-year-old army soldier, Abbas Medlej, after he reportedly tried to escape.
Medlej hailed from a large Shiite clan from the eastern city of Baalbek.
About two dozen more members of the country's security forces remain held captive by the militants. They were seized in August when several Syrian rebel factions, including the Islamic State group and al-Qaida linked Nusra Front, overran Arsal, killing and kidnapping soldiers and policemen in the most serious spillover yet of the neighboring civil war.
The captured soldiers and police are from country's many religious sects.
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