Authorities say the cell was planning ‘targeted assassinations against high-level government officials’.
Syrian authorities say they have arrested a Hezbollah-linked cell accused of plotting to assassinate senior government figures, an allegation rejected as “false” by the Lebanese armed group.
The Syrian Ministry of Interior said late on Tuesday it carried out a “series of simultaneous security operations” in the Damascus countryside as well as in the provinces of Aleppo, Homs, Tartous and Latakia.
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According to the ministry, the raids resulted in the “dismantling of an organised cell affiliated with the Hezbollah militia, whose members…
