Pro-Asir Militants Turn Themselves in to Army at Ain el-Hilweh

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Two militants from the group of detained Islamist cleric Ahmed al-Asir turned themselves in to the army at dawn at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, a media report said on Sunday.

LBCI television identified the two as Mahmoud al-Qarout and Bahaa al-Birtawi, saying the extremist Jund al-Sham group captured a third pro-Asir militant, Yahia al-Urr, as he was trying to surrender to the army.

Several members of Asir's group had fled to the camp in the wake of the deadly Abra battle with the army in 2013.

By long-standing convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in the country, leaving security inside to the Palestinian themselves, but the military has checkpoints at the camps' entrances.

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