BEIRUT
(Reuters) - Lebanon's army found anti-aircraft missiles among with a cache of
weapons in an area abandoned by Islamic State militants, it said on Monday.
The arms
cache also included mortars, medium and heavy machine guns, assault rifles,
grenades, anti-tank weapons, anti-personnel mines, improvised explosive devices
and ammunition.
On Saturday
Lebanon's army began an operation to dislodge Islamic State from its small
enclave in the mountains straddling the border with Syria.
The Syrian
army and Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah group are conducting a simultaneous but
separate operation against the same pocket from inside Syria.
A Hezbollah
offensive last month forced militants from the Nusra Front group, formerly al
Qaeda's official Syrian branch, to quit an adjacent enclave on the border for a
rebel-held part of Syria.
On Friday,
the Lebanese army said it had discovered surface-to-air missiles in a weapons
cache left by the Nusra militants in an area captured by Hezbollah and then
taken over by the army.
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