Families of Lebanese soldiers held by militants blocked roads in Beirut and highways between major cities on Saturday, pressing the government to do more to free them.

Families of Lebanese soldiers held by militants blocked roads in Beirut and highways between major cities on Saturday, pressing the government to do more to free them.

More than two dozen members of the Lebanese security forces are being held by armed groups located in the eastern Lebanese region of Arsal. A leading terrorist, Abu Ali al-Shishani, pledged to attack Lebanese women and children and end talks to free the soldiers, after his wife was detained by authorities.

The threat, delivered in a video distributed on websites, was published on Friday hours before the terrorist group said it had killed one of the Lebanese soldiers it holds.

Lebanese authorities earlier this week said they had detained a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) terrorist group.

The wife of Shishani has also been arrested.

Armed terrorist groups arrived from Syria escaping from the blows of the Syrian army and allies, seeking refuge in the border regions of Lebanon.

Officials say Shishani is a militant operates under the Al-Nusra Front, al Qaeda's official Syrian wing. But in the video he praises Baghdadi. ISIL and Nusra have both clashed and worked closely with each other at different times.