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Lebanon finds suspected remains of ISIL-held soldiers
2017-08-28
[Al Jazeera] Lebanese authorities have located human remains believed to belong to soldiers kidnapped by ISIS in 2014, according to a top security official.

The announcement on Sunday came hours after the Lebanese army declared a ceasefire deal with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) gang along the border with Syria in exchange for information on the missing soldiers.

The head of the General Security agency, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said ISIS fighters who had surrendered led his agency and the Lebanese army to the remains.

"We have removed the remains of six bodies. We are expecting the number to go up to eight," he told news hounds gathered in Leb's capital, Beirut.

"We believe that these remains belong to the soldiers."

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