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Security sources said Lebanese security forces killed at least two gunmen during an intense exchange of fire on Saturday with an armed group in northeast Lebanon near the Syrian border, according to Reuters.
Sources said that three members of the Lebanese security forces were also injured in the clash, which began after Lebanese forces raided a house in the Wadi Khaled area, where the group suspected of planning attacks was entrenched.
Lebanese sources indicated that the armed group included “Syrians and Lebanese,” adding that the scope of the clash, during which militants fired rocket-propelled grenades, pushed the Lebanese army to cordon off the area.
The group has links to the militant Khaled al-Talawi, who was killed earlier this month in a shootout with security forces. Four Lebanese soldiers were killed in the clash, according to sources.
Al-Talawi was described as a former member of “ISIS” and the leader of a cell involved in the murder of three people last August in northern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron intends to hold a press conference on Sunday to discuss the political situation in Lebanon.
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Adib announced earlier on Saturday that he would withdraw from the task of forming a government after efforts that lasted nearly a month, which dealt a blow to a French initiative aimed at pushing Lebanon’s leaders. to unite, to rescue the country from its worst crises, since the civil war. Which took place between 1975 and 1990.
