The Government Commissioner to the Military Court in Lebanon charged 14 people, including a Hezbollah member and an intelligence officer from the era of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, with planning attacks in Syria, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse. In early September, Lebanese authorities detained five people, including Syrians, on suspicion of planning attacks against the forces of the new authorities in Damascus. The suspects are believed to have received training from Hezbollah, while the party has denied these accusations. A judicial source told Agence France-Presse that the Government Commissioner to鹿 the Military Court charged 14 people with the crimes of "forming a criminal gang, training on military weapons, explosives, sniper rifles, and operating drones, with the aim of carrying out terrorist acts on the Syrian coast." The source stated that the initial confessions of the five detainees indicated "the smuggling of more than 40 officers and members of Assad's remnants from the Syrian coast by taking illegal crossings in northern Lebanon, in batches at a rate of 5 people each time." He explained that "a Hezbollah official" who is in hiding, named Yasser Al-Din and nicknamed "Hajj Alaa," was "supervising the operations of smuggling the network members and training them in party camps in eastern Lebanon." He added: "These operations were managed by the commander of the Desert Forces in Assad's army, Major General Mohammad Jaber, who is currently in the Russian capital, Moscow, and is close to Bashar al-Assad." In August, Lebanon handed over a former major general to the Syrian authorities after his arrest pursuant to an in-absentia warrant issued against him by Damascus, which accuses him of "murder and crimes against humanity" during his military service.