BEIRUT: A Lebanese military court on Friday charged 18 people, most of them Syrians, with transferring more than $19 million from Lebanon to the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.

Fifteen Syrians, one Palestinian and two others were accused of “belonging to Daesh [IS], creating a money smuggling network and transferring money out of Lebanon for IS’s benefit”, the source said.

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