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Kuwait’s Interior Ministry announced on Thursday that it conducted a sweep of an extremist cell conducting arms sales with ISIS terrorists. Kuwaiti authorities arrested six people--three Syrians, an Egyptian, a Kuwaiti, and the de facto leader of the cell, 45-year-old Lebanese national Osama Khayat.

The Ministry added that four other suspects from Syria and Australia are still at large.

The group was charged with aiding ISIS by supplying Chinese-made weapons from Ukraine, as well as “funds and new recruits.”

Through interrogation of Khayat, Kuwaiti authorities discovered the group was making arms deals on behalf of leaders of the Islamic State in Syria. Some purchases included FN-6 portable air defense systems, advanced surface-to-air missiles designed to hit low flying targets. The missiles were developed by China, FN-6 translating roughly to “flying crossbow,” and are in use by the People’s Liberation Army as well as Malaysia, Cambodia, Sudan and Peru.

The arms were reportedly shipped to ISIS in Syria through Turkey.

In October 2014, the Daily Mail reported that Free Syrian Army rebel fighters near Aleppo had received a new cache of new FN-6 weapons. The weapons were thought to have been provided by wealthy sympathizers in Qatar, who purchased them from corrupt Sudanese officials and smuggled them through Turkey to Syria as well.

Responding to allegations, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry flatly denied any sales of Chinese-made FN-6 portable air defense systems to the ISIS.

In an interview with RIA Novosti, Ministry spokeswoman Viktoria Kushnir said "We cannot sell or resell or make any deals concerning weapons. We are not a business entity and we do not have such weapons."

A report released by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says the state-company UkrSpetsExport,

“has never purchased Chinese man-portable air defence systems FN6, no ammunition, and did not send them to any country of the world. All deliveries of military supplies are carried out in strict compliance with international obligations and the laws of Ukraine and controlled by the State service of export monitoring of Ukraine.”

Khayat also admitted to the transfer of money to undisclosed ISIS bank accounts in Turkey.

The arrests make it clearer than ever that the ISIS’s outward reign of terror is not confined to countries like France and the US.

With the recent multi-pronged attacks in Paris that left at least 129 Parisians dead and for which ISIS claimed responsibility, much has been made of the so-called West’s inability to empathize with countries in the Middle East. When a major attack occurs in Paris it enrages the world, yet an attack in Lebanon near the capital of Beirut occurred in the same week, and the story received substantially less coverage and empathy.

The attacks in a Shia suburb killed 43 people, but President Obama of course didn’t make any statements condemning them as an "attack on all of humanity," as he did for Paris.

Kuwait itself became a victim of the ISIS in June when a suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in the capital, killing 27 people. Najd Province, an ISIS affiliate in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the most deadly terror attack in Kuwait in decades.