Lebanese army killed the terrorist Mustafa Mohamad Al Ahmad on Tuesday during an exchange of fire as he was trying to escape, Army Command – Orientation Directorate said in a statement.

“On Tuesday at 6:20 a.m. in the al-Kneisseh town in Akkar and while the army was trying to arrest Mustafa Mohamad al-Ahmad, aka Moustafa Awad, for belonging to the ISIL terrorist group, the assailant opened gunfire at the army troops,” said the statement.

“The army was compelled to fire back at the militant which caused his death,” it added.

Ahmad belonged to the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group and operated in the north eastern region of Lebanon.

Source: NNA