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A group of gunmen launched a large-scale attack on an army
outpost close to the village of Ras Baalbek, near Lebanon's
eastern frontier with Syria, wounding at least five soldiers,
and the army responded with artillery, the source said.
It was not immediately clear which group the attackers belonged
to but Syria-based jihadist groups such as al Qaeda's Nusra
Front and the ultra hardline Islamic State have attacked Lebanon
in recent months.
The army said in a statement that the clashes were continuing in
the desolate area close to Ras Baalbek and that the army was
shelling positions after the attack by a "terrorist group." It
did not give any details about casualties.
Ras Baalbek is near the town of Arsal where Sunni Islamist
militants staged a deadly incursion in August and seized a group
of Lebanese soldiers. The militants have since killed some of
the soldiers and around two dozen remain captive.
(Reporting by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Dominic Evans and
Alison Williams)
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