The Qalamoun region, along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria, has been a strategic site for the spillover of the Syrian civil war after militants from IS and the al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra front infiltrated the border in an attempt to expand their influence and control smuggling routes between the two countries.
On Friday, Hezbollah launched two separate attacks in the region, killing two commanders and several militants, and wounding others, according to the Hezbollah-run Al Manar news channel.
Referring to it as a "new accomplishment for the resistance," Al Manar reported that the first attack occurred in the Khirbet Hammam region in the strategic town of Arsal, targeting a gathering of IS militants. According to the news channel, the militants had gathered to plan and execute a terrorist attack in the nearby eastern city of Baalbeck.
An IS commander, identified as Abu Aisha al-Libi, and six other militants were killed in the attack.
In the second operation, Hezbollah fighters destroyed two IS military convoys, killing IS commander Abu Akrama al-Zouhouri and another militant identified as Ahmad Abed al-Mohsen. Several other unidentified militants were reportedly killed and wounded in the attack.
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