Lebanon Foils Three Suicide Attacks by Terrorist Network

By Staff, Agencies

Lebanon's Internal Security Forces [ISF] foiled plans by a "terrorist network" to carry out three suicide attacks in the country, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a news conference on Wednesday.

Mawlawi said the network was affiliated with Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL’] and that the plans for attacks, near the capital Beirut, involved gunfire and fire from rocket-propelled grenades in addition to suicide vests.