Two Lebanese Islamists have returned home to the northern city of Tripoli after spending eight years in a Syrian prison.
Ahmad al-Abdallah and Bahaeddine Sukkarieh, both from Tripoli, were received by their families, friends and supporters at a ceremony Sunday.
The two men belong to Hizb ut-Tahrir, a hardliner Sunni Islamist party co-founded by Sheikh Omar Bakir Fustoq, an extremist preacher who was jailed for three years in April for belonging to a terrorist group, inciting attacks against the army and attempting to form an Islamic emirate in Lebanon.
