Terror Suspect Arrested in Akkar's Bebnin

A terror suspect has been arrested in the town of Bebnin in the northern Akkar district, state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

“A General Security intelligence force carried out a raid in the town of Bebnin where it arrested 23-year-old Syrian national Suleiman Kh.S.,” NNA said.

The detainee is suspected of “belonging to a terrorist group,” the agency added.

The development comes a day after General Security revealed that it has managed to thwart major terrorist attacks in the country and to dismantle a dangerous Islamic State cell comprising Palestinian, Syrian and Yemeni militants.

According to the confessions of the cell's members, attacks were being plotted against a public facility, security forces, members of Lebanese political parties, a clergyman in the South, a Dahieh restaurant or gathering, and areas in Tripoli, Nabatieh and the Beirut southern suburb of al-Rihab.