TEHRAN: Iran has arrested 14 suspected Daesh members who were allegedly planning attacks in the country, authorities said on Friday.
The 14 members of “Daesh-Khorasan have been arrested” in a series of operations, the intelligence ministry said in a statement cited by state news agency IRNA.
Daesh-Khorasan, or Daesh-K, is the jihadist group’s Afghanistan branch. “Khorasan” refers to a historical region that included parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
IRNA did not specify the nationalities of those arrested, nor when they were detained, but said they were being questioned in the provinces of Tehran, nearby Alborz, Fars in the south, and southwest in Khuzestan.
“The accused came into the country in the past few days aiming to carry out terrorist operations,” the ministry statement said.
In January Daesh, a Sunni Muslim group, claimed twin blasts that killed more than 90 people at a memorial ceremony in Kerman, southern Iran.
It was the deadliest attack in Shiite Muslim-majority Iran since 1978.
At that time, then-interior minister Ahmad Vahidi said Daesh “was carrying out operations in the country in the service of the Zionist regime,” a reference to Iran’s arch-foe Israel.
Since war began in October between Israel and Hamas Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, tensions have soared between Israel and Iran.
In April, Iranian state media reported the arrest of three suspected Daesh members near Tehran.
Iran says 14 Daesh suspects arrested planning attacks
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Iran says 14 Daesh suspects arrested planning attacks
- The 14 members of “Daesh-Khorasan have been arrested” in a series of operations
- IRNA did not specify the nationalities of those arrested, nor when they were detained
Syrian authorities arrest leader of terrorist cells in Lattakia
- Ali Aziz Sbeira is accused of violating civilians’ rights during the Syrian uprising after 2011
LONDON: Syrian authorities have arrested Ali Aziz Sbeira, a prominent leader of terrorist cells responsible for attacks on internal security checkpoints, the Syrian army and civilians during the country’s uprising against the former regime of Bashar Assad.
The Internal Security Directorate announced on Wednesday the capture of Sbeira in Lattakia province, located on the Mediterranean Sea.
Authorities accuse him of leading and supplying arms to terrorist groups. Hailing from the town of Jableh, Sbeira is also accused of having links to Ghiyath Dalla and Brigadier General Nours Makhlouf, two military figures associated with the former rule of Assad.
Sbeira is accused of violating civilians’ rights during the Syrian uprising after 2011, when he joined the National Defense Militia and helped suppress peaceful demonstrations, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
In 2014, he joined the 4th Armoured Division, which was commanded by Maher Assad, brother of the former president, from 2018 until the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024.
