Hezbollah says it killed IS commander in Lebanon
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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it has killed the Islamic State military commander for the Qaa border area in Lebanon, where a series of suicide bombings and other attacks killed five people earlier this week.
Hezbollah's media outlet Al-Manar said the group, which shares security responsibilities with the Lebanese army in areas along the eastern border with Syria, killed a commander known as Abu Khatab in a rocket attack. The army did not release any comment.
Hezbollah, which also participates in Lebanon's government, has blamed the Qaa attacks on IS.
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Violence from neighboring Syria's civil war has spilled across the border in the past. Islamic State and al-Qaida militants briefly seized the Lebanese border town of Arsal in 2014, before security forces pushed them back across the frontier.