BEIRUT—Lebanon has identified the bodies of six of its soldiers found along the Syrian border in an area held by the ISIS terrorist group until three days ago, sources in the president’s office said.
The Lebanese army launched an offensive this month which ended with Islamic State militants leaving their last foothold along the border on Sunday.
Since then the army has found 10 bodies in the area. DNA tests confirmed that six of those belonged to Lebanese soldiers, the sources and local media reported on Wednesday.
ISIS terrorists had for years held territory along the border, and captured 10 Lebanese soldiers in 2014 when they briefly overran the town of Arsal, one of the worst spillovers of the Syrian conflict into Lebanon.
Lebanese Army soldiers ride on their military vehicles in Ras Baalbek, Lebanon August 28, 2017. Reuters/Hassan Abdallah
