Soldiers Attacked in Tripoli, No Casualties

Unknown assailants tossed a grenade near an army checkpoint in the northern city of Tripoli, without causing casualties, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The attack in the early hours of Wednesday took place in the area of al-Mankoubine in Beddawi, it said.

It was followed by retaliatory gunfire from the army, the agency added.

On Tuesday night, assailants tossed molotov cocktails at the Internal Security Forces in Tripoli.

One of them hit the tire of an ISF vehicle and the other landed near the police station in the neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, NNA said.

For the past few months, the military has been coming under repeated armed attacks mainly in northern Lebanon, the result of the clampdown on gunmen in the aftermath of the deadly clashes between the army and jihadits.

Since August, the Lebanese army has been fighting militants from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front near the border with Syria.

Earlier that month, the extremists crossed into the northeastern town of Arsal from Syria, capturing soldiers and policemen. Two of the soldiers have since been beheaded and one has been killed in captivity.