(MENAFN- Arab Times) Azerbaijan on Tuesday sentenced two men to 14 years in jail for fighting alongside Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, authorities in the ex- Soviet republic said. The energy-rich Caucasus nation's security ministry "arrested the two Azerbaijani nationals in April over fighting in Syria and Iraq", a Baku court spokesman told AFP. The two men "fought within the ranks of IS from 2014 to 2015 in Syria and Iraq," the spokesman said. Fighting in foreign wars is a criminal offence in the predominantly Muslim but secular country.
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