Security forces arrested on Sunday a Syrian officer suspected of having defected from the Syrian army, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the forces arrested Alaa Issam Mohammed at a checkpoint in the northern Akkar town of Shadra near the border with Syria.
He has since been turned over to the Army Intelligence.
M.T.
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