“On Tuesday at 6:20 a.m. in the al-Kneisseh town in Akkar and while the army was trying to arrest Mustafa Mohamad Al Ahmad, aka Moustafa Awad, for belonging to the ISIL terrorist group, the assailant opened gunfire at the army troops,” the Lebanese Orientation Directorate' statement read on Tuesday.
“The army was compelled to fire back at the militant, which caused his death,” it added.
Ahmad was one of the leaders of the Islamic State in northeastern Lebanon; his death is a major blow to the terrorist group.
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