Authorities also nabbed 52 foreigners from 14 different countries over such links.
“Meanwhile, 95 Malaysians have been identified as having links to IS militants in Syria and Iraq, eight of whom were nabbed when they returned to Malaysia,” Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said in a written reply.
Zahid was a responding to a question by Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz (BN-Tanah Merah), who wanted to know the number of Malaysians and foreigners involved with the IS.
Of the 95, Zahid said 34 were killed, while 53 remain in conflict areas.