BEIRUT: Lebanon has arrested a wife and son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group that has seized large chunks of Iraq and Syria, a military source said.

The two were detained by military intelligence 10 days ago near the town of Arsal, close to the border with Syria, the source told AFP, saying only that the woman was Syrian and that the boy was eight or nine years old.

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