Lebanese security forces arrested a man on Wednesday on suspicion of having recruited fighters for the ISIS terror group, the security authorities said in a statement.
BEIRUT (Sputnik) The arrested Lebanese national has confessed tohaving facilitated the transportation ofwould-be jihadists toSyria and Iraq together withan accomplice.
The Lebanese army said earlier it had arrested a Syrian national, Mahmoud Hussein Ossman, forbeing a member ofthe Nusra Front jihadist group and fighting againstthe Lebanese military in2014.
Islamic State and the Nusra Front are outlawed bymany nations asterrorist organizations. They have been excluded fromall peace talks and ceasefire deals inneighboring Syria.