“We were sent to fulfill the task in the province of Raqqah, in the city of El Mansoura ... We had to get information about Russian, Iranian and Syrian sites,” RIA Novosti quoted one of the detainees.
According to another person from the group, they received several thousand dollars from the curators for the assignment.
One of the militants also said that he was under training under the supervision of American instructors.
Currently, all three are imprisoned at the location of the Syrian forces.