Malaysia detains 17 in suspected terror plot

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s police chief said on Monday that 17 people, including two who recently returned from Syria, had been arrested on suspicion of plotting terror attacks in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Authorities in the Muslim-majority country have expressed increasing alarm over the threat of Muslim militancy in the wake of the Islamic State (IS) group’s bloody jihad in Syria and Iraq.