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Hezbollah kills top ISIS 'judge' on Lebanon-Syria border

Date of incident: 
December 15, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Hezbollah
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL))

Hezbollah-affiliated media reported Tuesday its fighters killed a top ISIS "judge" in the Qalamoun region along the Lebanese-Syrian border, with the Lebanese army later saying it killed four ISIS militants in a separate attack.
Al-Manar TV and Hezbollah’s War Media Center said that Abu Abdullah Amer, head of ISIS's Sharia court in the region, was targeted in a road-side bomb planted by Hezbollah fighters.
The reports added that the attack took place while Amer was touring various ISIS military posts in the mountainous region.
A second bomb targeted ISIS militants as they tried to retrieve Amer's body, according to the reports. The second attack was followed by heavy artillery from Hezbollah, resulting in casualties among those militants.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Dec-15/327500-hezboll...

Primary category: 
Clashes/Armed Conflict
Secondary Category: 
Heavy Artillery [inc.rocket attacks]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Border conflicts (Syrian border)
Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.