A Lebanese military court on Monday charged altogether 28 people with being affiliated with an al- Qaida breakaway group, and planning to carry out suicide bombings, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

The NNA said that a total of seven suspects, who were arrested during military operations searching hotel rooms, are already in custody.

A judge also accused the suspects, considered to be linked with the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), of buying detonators, explosives and weapons, as well as training suicide bombers to carry out terrorist acts in residential areas in Beirut.

Last month, Lebanese security forces raided the Napoleon Hotel in Beirut after getting informed of an attack plot on hospitals and several high-ranking security officials.

Over 100 people were interrogated during the security raid but only a Frenchman, who is originally from the Comoros islands, was arrested and has reportedly confessed to being sent by the ISIL to carry out a terrorist attack in Lebanon.

On June 25, a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up at a hotel in Raouche when the security forces raided his room, but his accomplice, also a Saudi citizen, survived the blast, and was arrested and questioned. Endi

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