TWO Lebanese-Australians are being sought by Kuwaiti authorities for allegedly being part of an ISIS terrorist cell that was dismantled in the Gulf state at the weekend. 
Kuwaiti media have reported that five people have been arrested for supplying ISIS in Syria with weapons, money and recruits, but the two Lebanese-Australians are yet to be apprehended.
They have been named as Hesham Mohammad Thahab and Rabia Thahab. Their ages and genders are not given.
Their names were given up by the cell's ringleader, Osama Khayat, who allegedly confessed to being behind an operation to supply arms out of the Ukraine to ISIS in Syria.
The Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission referred inquiries about the Lebanese-Australians to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
DFAT issued this statement: "The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is seeking to confirm reports that two Australians have been arrested in Kuwait." However, this was inconsistent with reports from the official Kuwait News Agency, Kuna, which said that four members of the cell, including the Lebanese-Australians, were "still at large abroad".
Several suspected ISIS members and sympathisers were tried in the Gulf emirate for a suicide bombing in   June claimed by the group. A court sentenced seven men to death and jailed eight others to between two and 15 years for assisting the Saudi bomber.An appeals court is to issue its verdict in the case on   December 13.