BEIRUT, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Tuesday that it destroyed a network and arrested two suspected Daesh (IS) members in north of Lebanon that oversees the movement of militants from Lebanon into the neighboring country Syria.
The ISF said in a statement that the members of the cell reside in the northern border town of Wadi Khaled and acted in coordination with group's cadre in its de facto capital in Syria, Raqqa.
The two suspects were identified as 22-year-old Aa.Aa and 32-year-old Aa.H.
The statement added that "Aa.Aa confessed that in a recent attempt to move to Syria, he communicated last month with a Daesh member in the neighboring country, and on May 8, he went to Idlib to supposedly continue to Hama, then Raqqa."
"However, due to the intensity of the battles near Raqqa and the lack of a safe road, Aa.Aa decided to return to Lebanon," the statement added.
The ISF pointed that Aa.H. had previously fought in al-Hosn al-Gharbi, north of the Lebanese border, and helped Aa.Aa and others communicate with his sister's son M.H, who is wanted and is fighting battles in Raqqa, in order to facilitate their move to Syria.
Both detainees confessed that the funding for their move to Syria came from an unknown person living in Europe.
