Senior Daesh security leader in Syria lived ‘semi-permanently’ in Lebanon

BEIRUT: A senior Daesh security official arrested in Lebanon had been living in the country on a “semi-permanent” basis, Lebanese judicial sources said Tuesday. Investigators suspect he served as the group’s general security emir for its self-proclaimed Southern and Central provinces in Syria. Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said its units continue to carry out preemptive operations to track down extremist cells and dismantle their networks before they can launch attacks. It announced that it arrested a Syrian national identified by the initials H.R., born in 1994, on June 30.

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