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Nahar Net
10 hours ago
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- Nahar Net
Lebanese Army says arrested IS Lebanon leader
by Naharnet Newsdesk 25 June 2025, 12:43 The Lebanese Army said it has arrested the suspected leader of the Islamic State group in Lebanon after implicating him in planning several operations. "Following a series of security, surveillance and monitoring operations, the Intelligence Directorate arrested citizen R.F., nicknamed "Qasoura", a prominent leader of the terrorist organization Daesh," the army said, using the Arabic acronym for IS. Weapons and ammunitions were also seized. According to the army, Qasoura took over the group's Lebanon branch after the arrest of several prominent figures in December. The announcement comes days after a suicide bomber killed at least 25 people in a church in neighboring Syria, with authorities there blaming IS. IS and other Sunni extremist groups fought several battles with the Lebanese Army in the 2010s and carried out a series of deadly bombings targeting Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its supporters. But they were largely defeated militarily in 2017.
The National
14 hours ago
- The National
'Qasoura', suspected ISIS leader, detained by Lebanese army
The suspected leader of ISIS in Lebanon has been arrested, the country's army has said, accusing him of planning several "security operations". The Lebanese military posted on X on Tuesday that a suspect named RF, also known as Qasoura, had been detained by its Intelligence Directorate following a series of security, surveillance and monitoring operations. Weapons and ammunition were seized along with equipment for manufacturing drones, the army said. The military labelled him a "prominent leader of the terrorist organisation Daesh". According to the army, Qasoura took over the Lebanon branch of I SIS after the arrest of several major figures in December including his predecessor, who was nicknamed Abu Saeedal-Shami. An investigation is under way, the military said. Fears of a resurgence of ISIS have been running high in the region with the collapse last year of the regime of president Bashar Al Assad in neighbouring Syria. On Sunday, a suicide bomber killed at least 25 people at a church in Damascus, with authorities blaming ISIS. It and other Sunni extremist groups fought several battles with the Lebanese army in the 2010s and carried out a series of deadly bombings targeting the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and its supporters. But they were largely defeated militarily in 2017.
