Lebanon: Three Islamic State attacks thwarted in Beirut

‘A terrorist group had recruited young Palestinian men in Lebanon to carry out major bombing attacks’

Lebanon thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to carry out three suicide bombings targeting Shiite religious compounds in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the interior ministry said Wednesday.

“A terrorist group had recruited young Palestinian men in Lebanon to carry out major bombing attacks using explosive belts” and other munitions, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a press conference.