Lebanon arrests ISIL terrorist who beheaded soldier

A member of Daesh Takfiri group, who beheaded a kidnapped Lebanese soldier, has been arrested, Lebanon’s security directorate said.

According to the reports, the security body said on Monday that a Syrian national was arrested in Lebanon for being a member of a terrorist organization.

"After interrogation, he confessed to being a member of the terrorist group Daesh ... and to beheading the martyred soldier Abbas Medlej," it added.

Medlej was kidnapped along with some 29 other troops and policemen during clashes with ISIL and al-Qaede-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists in the town of Arsal near the Syrian border in August 2014.

Five of the kidnapped forces were executed. Last December, al-Nusra Front terrorist group released 16 of them after numerous rounds of negotiations. The remaining nine are still being held by the Takfiri terrorists.

The security directorate also said that the detained ISIL terrorists also confessed to killing a police officer during the clashes.

"He was recently involved in surveillance of Lebanese army checkpoints in Arsal, as a prelude to a new attack aimed at kidnapping soldiers," the body added.

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