Honduras detains five US-bound Syrians with stolen passports.

The five men are currently being held in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The central American nation is over 1,500 miles from the United States border.

VIDEO of the detention of five Syrians detained in Tegucigalpa, Honduras while attempting to head to the USA.

Police say there are no current signs that the men have ties to Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

The men were coming from Costa Rica, and planning to make passage into Guatemala next.

Allies of the United States and France are on high alert for any and all suspicious activity following Friday’s attacks. The issue of Syrian refugees has become hotly political, after France learned that one of the terrorists who attacked people in Paris entered France as a refugee.

A specific threat was made from Islamic State members against Washington, D.C., in an Internet video earlier in the week.

After continued investigation into the Syrians backgrounds and travel plans; sources now indicate that the young men had no ties to terrorism and were simply fleeing their war torn mother land in search of asylum. They each paid $10,000 to smugglers to help get them to America. Learn more here.

They have all been jailed on various charges that could lead to up to 5 years in prison.