Army Arrests IS Militant who Confesses to Terrorist Plans

The army arrested Lebanese fugitive Ahmed Adnan al-Hamad in the Akkar town of Mashta Hasan for having links to terrorist groups, the Army Orientation Directorate said in a statement on Saturday.

Al-Hamad had links with terrorist Mohammed Ahmed al-Satem and had schemed to carry out attacks in the area of Wadi Khaled, the statement added.

The detainee had admitted that the so-called al-Satem had briefed him on the plans of the Islamic State to recruit fighters and establish terrorist cells and armed groups in Wadi Khaled in a bid to target army positions in conjunctions with military operations inside the Syrian territory.

Al-Hamad said that he had joined a group of five members and were all tasked with recruiting other units and with collecting information about collaborators with the security services to be eliminated afterward.

On Monday, the Security forces arrested two Islamic State jihadists who had plotted to carry out attacks inside Lebanon.

Dozens of suspects were arrested across the country in recent weeks.

The crackdown followed an IS suicide bombing in the southern Beirut suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh that killed 44 people and wounded around 240 others.