Ministry: 2093 Saudis fighting abroad for terrorist groups

The Saydu Arabian Interior Ministry has admitted that 2,093 of their own citizens are fighting abroad with radical terrorist groups, most significantly in Syria.

“The number of Saudis proven to be in conflict areas is 2,093,” the ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki told daily newspaper Al-Hayat on Monday, adding that over 70 percent of them, or 1,540, were fighting for terrorist groups in Syria.

Syria has blamed Saudi Arabia, along with certain other countries in the Middle East, for the devastating spread of militancy across the country, saying if it was not for the support of governments like the one in Riyadh, the militants could never capture large areas of land in the Arab country, PressTV reported.