KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police say they have detained three Muslim men suspected of wanting to go to Syria to join the militant Islamic State group.
The head of the national police counter-terrorism unit, Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, said Friday that the three were detained Thursday at the Kuala Lumpur international airport while waiting for a flight to Turkey en route to Syria.
He says the men -- an architect and a technician, both aged 26, and a 46-year-old shopkeeper-- were believed to be recruited through Facebook and other social media sites and were in contact with Malaysians fighting in Syria.