15 Kuwaitis aligned with DAESH
Fifteen Kuwaitis are believed to have joined forces with DAESH or the so-called Islamic State terrorist organization which remains besieged in Idlib amid reports the ‘Battle for Idlib’ has been postponed after the international parties to the ‘conflict’ feared heavy casualties, reports Al-Jaridah daily quoting sources.
The daily said, it is believed the Kuwaitis had left Kuwait in 2014 and 2015 and joined the terrorist organization. The sources added, the Kuwaiti authorities will follow the movements of these citizens immediately after they leave Syria, arrest them and bring them back to the country to serve the sentences.
The same sources said all of them have been sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in absentia for doing hostile action, joining a banned organization and training in the use of firearms. Sources added dozens of Kuwaitis have left the country, and there is information some of them have died while fighting alongside the terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq.
However, the Kuwaiti security authorities have issued arrest warrants against them in the absence of official documents confirming their deaths. On the other hand, sources have revealed the cases of undisclosed ‘confiscated cash’ by passengers while leaving the Kuwaiti ports decreased this year until September 2018 to 800,000 dinars, compared to last year, which was 3 million dinars.
Source : Arabtimes
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