Swiss federal prosecutors said Monday they have indicted two men alleged to have tried to join up with jihadists in territory once held by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
A Swiss-Tunisian dual national, who is accused of having recruited IS members, and a Swiss co-defendant face charges linked to a ban on radical groups like IS and al-Qaida. They allegedly trained with a group in Switzerland and France before traveling to Turkey in late 2015.
In Turkey, they stayed in an IS safe house until they were stopped from entering Syria by Turkish authorities, the Attorney General's office said in a statement. They were returned to Switzerland in the summer of 2016, and temporarily placed in pretrial detention.