Security Forces Arrest Syrian IS Member Planning Attacks against Military

The General Security agency announced on Thursday the arrest of a Syrian member of the extremist Islamic State group.

The suspect, identified as M.F., confessed to taking part in clashes against the army in the northeastern border town of Arsal in 2014.

He was part of an armed group headed by Syrian Aa.H., known as “Abou al-Qaaqaa,” said the General Security statement.

M.F. confessed to belonging to the IS and receiving training on how to make and plant explosives.

The suspect revealed during interrogations that he plotted and prepared to carry out a suicide attack against an army checkpoint.

This plot was being planned by a Lebanese identified as Aa.S., also known as “Abou al-Khattab al-Lubnani,” a leading member of the IS in Syria's Raqa city, which is a stronghold of the terrorist group.

Over the past months, the army and security forces have arrested scores of terrorists and suspected terrorists linked to the armed groups involved in the conflict in Syria.

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