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Terrorism In Europe: Refugees Linked To Syrian Terror Group Arrested In Germany On War Crimes

German authorities arrested two Syrian men over suspicions that they were members of the Islamic extremist group Nusra Front in a police crackdown against terrorists Wednesday and Thursday in the western cities of Giessen and Düsseldorf. One of the men taken into custody was Abdalfatah H.A., 35, who is suspected of overseeing the killing of 36 Syrian government employees amid its bloody civil war in March 2013. 

Abdalfatah H.A., whose full surname was not released due to German privacy rules, has been charged with war crimes over carrying out “so-called Sharia death sentences" the federal prosecutor’s office said Thursday. He joined the terrorist group in 2013 and led a group of its militants to overtake a substantial weapons storage facility for the Syrian government near the city of Mahin in November of that year.