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2 IS commanders killed along Syrian-Lebanese border

Xinhua, December 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Two commanders with the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed on Tuesday in Lebanon's border areas with Syria, according to media reports.

The Lebanese armed forces fired a guided missile rocket which obliterated the military vehicle transporting an IS commander on Tuesday, killing him along with all others passengers in the outskirts of the north eastern border town of Ras Baalbeck, according to the National News Agency (NNA).

The NNA identified the killed as Abou Jassem Flita, IS field commander in the region of Qalamoun.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station said that a senior IS official was killed Tuesday in a Hezbollah operation along the Lebanese-Syrian border.

"IS religious judge in Qalamoun, Abu Abdullah Amer, was killed during a special operation by the resistance mujahideen along the outskirts of Ras Baalbek," reported the TV station.

Al-Manar said that as Amer's convoy passed along Ras Baalbek's outskirts on its way to inspect IS military posts, the mujahideen detonated the roadside bomb.

Hezbollah fighters then detonated another bomb as IS militants attempted to recover Amer's body.

According to al-Manar, a number of IS militants were wounded in the blast, including another senior member. Endit