October 16, 2026
The threads of the security investigation are accelerating in one of the most mysterious and exciting intelligence operations on Lebanese soil. After the sudden announcement by the official Syrian news agency “SANA” of the arrest of the leader of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of the Iskenderun Brigade,” Ali Kayali (known as “Miraj Ural”), the Intelligence Directorate of the Lebanese Army achieved a qualitative and decisive breakthrough. It obtained precise data according to which it determined the full identities of the members of the group that carried out the kidnapping at dawn on Thursday from the heart of his home in the town of Mansouriya in the northern Matn District, officially dropping the Syrian story and placing the entire operation within the framework of an organized security kidnapping that violates Lebanese sovereignty.
Dawn raid in Mansouriya: luring the son and handcuffing the wife
Cross-sectional security investigations depict the scenario of the storming and detention, which was carried out with extreme precision:
- Identification of the executors: Special information revealed that Lebanese Army Intelligence now has a complete file on the identity of the members of the kidnapping group, and its field units are working to track their movements and determine their whereabouts in preparation for their arrest and bringing them to justice.
- Luring and intrusion into an arbitrator: The operation began by luring Kayali’s son and kidnapping him to extract the secret address of his father’s residence in Mansouriya. The unknown group later went to the house and stormed it and handcuffed Kayyali’s wife to paralyze her, before dragging him and forcefully taking him to an unknown destination at dawn on Thursday.
- The $3 million bait: These data intersect with the monitoring of previous movements of the so-called “Ibrahim Al-Jassim” (a Syrian holding a Turkish passport and suspected of being linked to Ankara’s intelligence), who was active among opposition groups promoting a huge Turkish financial reward amounting to 3 million dollars Opposite Ras al-Kayyali, which suggests that this view was used as an intelligence cover to determine the target’s coordinates.
Yarzeh station and the fall of the novel “Sana”
The geographical path of the operation poses major question marks about regional coordination and the violation of sovereignty:
- Embassy and diplomatic cars corridor: Investigations suggest that Kayali was transferred immediately after his kidnapping to the Syrian embassy headquarters in Yarzeh, which is geographically close to Mansouriya, with strong suspicions that cars bearing diplomatic plates were used to secure his crossing from the diplomatic headquarters campus towards the Syrian border, away from the eyes of the Lebanese security services.
- Contradicting the official story: Lebanese security data refuted the story of SANA, which claimed that Damascus intelligence arrested Kayali “while he was trying to escape across the border,” confirming that the man was not about to flee, but was forcibly taken from his bed in a security commando operation carried out deep in Mount Lebanon.
These developments put the Lebanese judicial authorities before the file of a cross-border security breach, awaiting the results of the army intelligence’s pursuit of the network of perpetrators to reveal the complete mystery: How did Kayali get out of Matn, and who colluded in passing him through the official crossings into the grip of Damascus?
