Saudi husband tips off police to nab IS-bound wife with underage children

Saudi Interior Ministry announced on Friday the foiling of an attempt of three Saudi sisters from taking their children to Syria to joint militant groups, Saudi Press Agency reported.

The ministry came to know about the case when a Saudi man reported to the police that his wife left the country along with three of their children, aged between 10 to 2.

She went with her two sisters, in which one has four children aged between 6 to 1. They were planning to go to Syria to join militant group, the police confirmed.

Security authorities traced the three women who arrived in Beirut and through coordination with Lebanese police the women and children were brought back to Saudi Arabia.

The ministry highlighted that all children are in good health condition and the mothers were kept in custody to be referred to the judicial authorities.

Although they were successful attempts of Saudi fathers taking their children with them to conflict zones, mainly Iraq and Syria, this was the first reported case of mothers carrying their children there.

The country has been taking severe steps to prevent its nationals from joining militant groups, thus might contribute in the growing number of sleeping cells in the country that were responsible of many terrorist blasts and attacks in recent years inside Saudi Arabia. Endit