The Army Intelligence launched recently a crackdown on “terrorist” cells in the middle and west Bekaa that support armed Syrian opposition groups, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.
According to a report published in the daily, the army intelligence is raiding several towns in the middle and west Bekaa, where wanted suspects took shelter.
The suspects are allegedly involved in planting road side bombs in the Bekaa and attacking army and Hizbullah convoys.
A security source told the newspaper that the raids are based on a series of investigations and according to testimonies from detainees, who in turn confessed to their involvement.
The source pointed that “tens of Lebanese and Syrian nationals were detained.”