Saudi stops 3 women, 7 children from joining Syria war

Doha - The children were aged between one and 10 years old, the statement added.

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had prevented three Saudi women and seven children from traveling through Lebanon to join the conflict in neighboring Syria, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The three sisters and their children were detained by Lebanese authorities in Beirut and flown back to Saudi Arabia on Thursday after the husband of one of the women told police they planned to join the war, SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.
 The children were aged between one and 10 years old, the statement added.
The Saudi public has grown increasingly angry at bloody images broadcast of Syria's violence and the government has sought to stop its citizens from joining what some of them see as war against the Syrian government.
Many of the foreign fighters flocking to Syria to join groups like the Daesh are Arabs from the Middle East and Africa, although militants have attracted fighters from across different countries ranging from Norway to Uzbekistan.
A former British spy chief said in December that Syria had become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of militants after  groups there more than doubled their recruitment of foreign fighters to as many as 31,000 over the past 18 months.
 

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