German federal prosecutors said on Friday, December 22 that they had charged two Syrians with “war crimes” committed in Damascus a decade ago, as part of the Islamic State (IS) group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two men, identified as Mohammad A and Asmael K, as per German privacy laws, were arrested in March and are accused of membership of a foreign terror organization and “hostage-taking resulting in death”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asmael K was also charged with murder and killing people protected under international law. Mohammad A is believed to have joined the Islamic State group at the latest in 2013 and to have served as a commander of 200 fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
German federal prosecutors said on Friday, December 22 that they had charged two Syrians with “war crimes” committed in Damascus a decade ago, as part of the Islamic State (IS) group. The two men, identified as Mohammad A and Asmael K, as per German privacy laws, were arrested in March and are accused of membership …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":99560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6119],"tags":[6120,6121],"class_list":["post-99555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-islamic-state-members","tag-syrians-convicted"],"yoast_head":"\n