The Lebanese Army Command issued on Monday a statement which announced that the military units had arrested 18 ISIL members in the northeastern town of Arsal.

According to the statement, the terrorists are Lebanese and Syrian and belong to the ISIL terrorist group.

The statement added that the Army Intelligence Directorate carried out the arrest after two weeks of field operations, noting that the militants owned an amounts of weaponry as well as munitions and planned to carry out terrorist attacks.

Source: Al-Manar English Website